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Wired: Sony Prototyping Personal Video Player

Posted by timothy on from the all-the-cool-kids dept.

Cinematique writes "Wired is running an article about Apple beating Sony in the personal music player fight. The author suggest that Sony should skip its planned answer to the iPod and focus instead on a portable video player. But there's a catch: the legality of the content such video players would use."

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  1. Legality of content? by BizidyDizidy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't see as how this should be a problem.

    First, if you own a DVD, you should be able to "rip" it to one of these players as fair use. This would probably often be a useful feature.

    Even cooler would be if the future of DVRs would be to download content to such players, just like a computer to an IPOD. Being able to "TiVo" shows and watch them whenever you want would be quite a nice feature.

    Is there any "copyright" issues with using TV shows like this? How could it be any different from using a DVR in the first place.

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