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AOL's Mystro TV vs Tivo?
admiral2001 writes "Here is is a NYTimes story about AOL-Time-Warner's plans for a TiVo-killing 'Mystro TV' (nytimes annoying free registration required). They plan to begin rolling this out sometime in the next two years. Their major features are the simple pause, rewind, and fast forward that all PVRs have. However, they've taken the obvious stance to "let[s] networks set the parameters, dictating which shows users can reschedule, and it also creates ways for networks to insert commercials." The article even mentions how they could get an advantage in pushing their product because "viewers could try out Mystro TV by pushing a button on their remote"."
For those of you who hate registering...don't read the article.
The NY Times wrote the article. It's theirs. If you want to read it, they have the right to make you jump through whatever hoops they want.
If we want to demonstrate that we can be responsible with copyrights and that draconic copy-protection methods aren't necessary, perhaps we shouldn't blatantly violate copyrights in the name of convenience, eh?
What does somebody stealing other people's stuff have to do with GPL? All my friends who support and push Linux OWN (as in bought) what bit of MS based software that they run. They, like my self, do not have illegal music.
My friends that only run MS are loaded with stolen software and downloaded music.
I have noticed that it is the MS world where all the p2p software for stealing music or getting lots of porn is targeted at. The funny thing is that almost always the ideas for these are developed in OSS for much better uses.
The real question that should be asked is , do the users of certain products simply emulate the companies/people that produced them?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I thought that was 'strailia. Oh wait! Thats where all the people who were not wanted in their homelands were sent.
British teeth... American lardasses... Canadian..., er, um, hmm, nothing more offensive than "bumps on logs" comes to mind. It's the quiet ones you have to watch, though, ya know.
You could've hired me.