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Studios Forcing ReplayTV to Collect Viewing Info

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the man-that-sucks dept.

superposed writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has articles here and here about an ongoing court battle between ReplayTV and several major media organizations. A federal judge has required SonicBlue, makers of ReplayTV, to begin collecting data on how customers use the systems to swap shows and skip commercials, and hand the information over to the studios so they can make a case that copyrights are being infringed. SonicBlue is appealing the ruling, saying that collecting the data would violate their privacy policy. " It seems strange to me how much legal hoopla SonicBlue has been dragged through considering how many of these things they've actually sold. Update: 05/05 14:22 GMT by M : See the previous story as well.

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  1. video surveillance everywhere! by rjnagle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The pop-up appearing from the slashdot site reads:

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    Robert Nagle, Idiotprogrammer, Houston
  2. video surveillance everywhere! (corrected) by rjnagle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The popup on the slashdot site reads "video surveillance everywhere! Makes your home safe and secure!" Irony of ironies. There is an iron law of beaurocracy: if it is technological feasible to demand data about something, they always will. Maybe someone will invent an intermediate device to cloak this data?

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    Robert Nagle, Idiotprogrammer, Houston