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SonicBlue Going w/ReplayTV 4000 Despite Lawsuit
Ughhgu writes "Looks like SonicBlue is going to go ahead and start shipping. The Cnet article even has a quote from SonicBlue. It seems they can't understand why the industry would sue them. Sign me up for one!" I'd dearly love to test one of these.
"Industry experts said the suit by ABC owner Walt Disney, CBS owner Viacom and NBC owner General Electric"
Well there it is; their chips are on the table. The same manufacturers who own a controlling stake in Tivo and Microsoft's DVR are using the straw man of "high speed digital piracy" to try to maintain their death grip on the way television is distributed.
The fanatical devotion of these companies is amazing; look at the lengths that Hughes has gone to to shut down all 12 of the DirectTV hackers who are "pirating" the satellite signal that Hughes is shining through their houses. Here we have the same concept, large corporations trying to control what consumers do with the radiation that is being beamed through the walls of private property. It's not just insulting, it's absurd.
And let's look at the players here. Viacom, owner of MTV, the most "liberal" espousing network in existence turns out to be managed by conservative, nearly fascist "intellectual property" zealots. Disney, well, their CEO Michael Eisner - and please don't take this the wrong way - but this is just another example of why money is green. Another jew trying to pick it before it's ripe. And finally General Electric, the pioneer of corporate dominance.
Yes sir, a real winners circle right there. I just hope the consumers get enough of these on the market before the product is destroyed that there will at least be an outcry, like there was with Napster.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
Yeah TV ain't what it used to be, there are occasionally some good programs on now adays! Man some of those educational courses are actual college courses!
I watch TV while browsing the web, listening to mp3's and doing development ->
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