DMCA Loophole For Peer-to-Peer TV Show Sharing?

Posted by timothy on Monday January 6, 2003 @07:15AM from the honest-it-was-just-broadcast-to-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fortune.com asks, "Is TV Show Swapping Legal? For those using TiVos or new Windows PCs, it just might be." Why? "The law that ensnared ... DVD hackers, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, doesn't specifically address the question of [personal video recorders]. But when it comes to the legality of hacking digital media, the law zeroes in on 'circumvention' -- did hackers have to circumvent protection to copy the video? Several hackers who have published their techniques online say they didn't have to crack anything to extract video from their TiVos""

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suing micro$soft? by chimpo13 · 2003-01-06 07:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That one made me laugh. "You're found guilty of hacking Bill Gates. Based on your trial about being a monopoly, you're punishment is a $100 fine. Try not to let that happen again."

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FServ for TiVO by LinuxHam · 2003-01-06 10:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Here's a q.. has anyone figured out how to add and launch executables on TiVO? Adding an IRC client and FServ would be quite a nice sharing option.

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