There are two issues; technical and legal. IMNAL, so I don't guarantee accuracy of the legal issues.
All of the recording methods were based on the original streaming system which was separate for Sirius and XM; back in the beginning of this year, SiriusXM merged their streams into a single unified player (which is pretty universally despised, since it's ugly and difficult to use). This player is Flash-based; it's important to remember that, since Adobe, owners of Flash, come into this.
The other third-party players (XM Tuner, SiriusXMStreamer, even Replay A/V) continued to use the "legacy" streams, and all was still right with the world. Then SiriusXM did a channel realignment, and all hades broke loose...the legacy streams were not updated (which makes sense if you think about it from a business standpoint), so many people lost the ability to record their favorite channels; XM subscribers lost considerably more channels than Sirius subscribers did on the legacy streams. But still, the un-added channels continued to play on both, and we continued to find ways around using them.
Until yesterday. It seems SiriusXM pulled the plug on the legacy streams, and the music stopped.
"But wait," you say, "why not use the new streams?" There are two problems with using the new streams...the technical issue is they are mildly encrypted, and before the streams would be accessible, the streams would need to be unencrypted. Which could be done.
But legally...it can't. If you do a web search on "Applian and Adobe," you will find information about a lawsuit filed by Adobe against Applian for decrypting a flash stream. Applian was forced to remove that ability from their product, thanks to the DMCA and other laws passed by the congresscritters who are firmly in the pockets of the entertainment industry.
So while it would be possible to surmount the technical issues, no one in their right mind would make public an application to do so, since it would put them squarely in the cross-hairs of Adobe's legal team.
You may receive it, but it is a violation of your terms-of-service (the Customer Agreement) to record the stream. No, I'm not kidding, you can read it yourself online, paying close attention to section 4.
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