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TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups
TiVo User writes "TiVo has apparently decided to come down on sites that hosted 'image backups,' essentially tarballs of the OS for the machine, which just happens to be Linux. TiVo owners use the images to install on new, larger hard drives (increasing the recording capacity of the unit) or to recover a dead system. Why TiVo has a problem with this, but allows others to sell the same images for profit is beyond me." Read on for the rest of TiVo User's comments.
"The images are not used to create pirate TiVos (as a subscription service, TiVo justifiably controls access to their database tightly), so there wouldn't appear to be much harm in allowing them to be hosted. TiVo has always walked a fine line in allowing the user community to mod their units, perhaps they have finally stepped over that line, considering there are free alternatives that are less restrictive. To their credit, the legal mumbo jumbo in their cease letter is non-threatening compared to most other of this type, but it's interesting the letter draws no distinction between the portions of the software that are Linux, and therefore expressly distributable, and those that are proprietary to TiVo."
> Suck to have an idiot for a president, doesn't it?
What does it suck? Or is that a command? So, if I don't suck, I'll have a perfectly normal person for president. I'll keep the current one and not suck anything, thank you.
> And have that idiot re-elected in 2004 by idiots
Wow, someone must have learned a new word today. You must be so proud. Very good, little Billy, repeat after me "Idiot." Also, I seem to have misplaced a year of my life, since last time I checked, 2004 had not even started yet. I guess I'm lucky that I live in the U.S. so I'm not an ignorant, pustule-sucking moron who doesn't even know what fucking year it is. Christ, man, get a fucking clue.
> America, wake up: the world hates you.
Clueless dolt, wake up: We know, but it's unjustified & there's nothing we can do about it, so we take the only available option. Laugh at you & point, then quickly ignore you (which isn't too hard to do) because you have 0 idea what is really going on.