Hollywood and NFL Fight TiVo

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC/Washington Post is reporting that the NFL and tinseltown have asked the FCC to stop TiVo from expanding its service to include the ability to transfer recordings to PC's and other remote devices. TiVo says the system is secure. I say its source code will end up on the box. You do the math."

Comments

Suggestion for a new business model

[justanyone]

I'm willing to pay per view for all shows I view.

• I believe television should be like books.
• I get the right in perpetuity (forever) to re-view any show I purchase, as many times as I wish.
• I get the right to copy the show as many times as I wish to whatever media I wish.
• I do not have the right to sell any show.

In order to make this business model work, the amount of data sent per show should make it prohibitively expensive to keep everything.

Thus, I pay $0.05 (5 cents) for the 'Ask This Old House' epsiode 112. I would be silly to burn it to media because it would cost $0.50 to store it. Of course, if I have that much money, I have the right to do so, but it'd be silly. Any time I want to watch it again, I'll just order it up again and they'll get another 5 cents. If everyone does this, they actually get lots of money.

This is similar to my idea about music. I'd be happy to pay approx. 2 cents per song to the copyright owner (the artist, I hope?). I'm willing to spend a total of $1000 to own a library of the 50,000 most popular recordings of all time. That's probably most everything I'd want to listen to ever.

The record companies and artists get their money, I get the right to listen to all the songs I want when I want how I want where I want, and everybody's happy.

Eventually the price will come down to reasonable levels.

Music and TV and Movies all operate on the same concept as Books - Intellectual property. They should realize their business model allows for plenty of profit, just adjust it for the new realities of media costs.