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TiVo Has to Fund Your Local Stadium

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-just-plain-wierd dept.

Strudelkugel writes "The Washington Post has a truly Kafka-esque article regarding TiVo, the broadcast flag, the NFL and limited file sharing. "TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature -- the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people." Just wait until your read the rest of the story..." This one is actually really worth a read to see just how bizarrely corrupt this all is. Enjoy.

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  1. What.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If I don't have a stadium near me?

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  2. Registration Required by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It'd be great if stories on sites that require some sort of registration were simply never linked to. Registration-required sites would get less traffic than sites that simply work, and they might either cease to exist or make their sites easier to use. Either outcome would be preferable to the big registration form that comes up every friggin' time for those of us who aren't into cookies and doubleclick tracking and yadda yadda yadda.

  3. DOOM III is OUT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woohoo!

  4. Why do Slashdot eds allow Washington Post articles by 0x0d0a · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are articles from the registration-only Washington Post allowed?

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  5. Re:Analog outputs by syrinx · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...or not. Frankly, as a libertarian myself, I think Kerry would be worse than Bush (and that's tough to do, but the Democrats have somehow managed to find someone), so if I were to not vote Libertarian, I'd be voting for Bush.

    Bet you want me to vote Libertarian now, proving that your so-called "reasoning" is really just "OMGWTFBBQ BUSH SUX0RS!!!11" in disguise.

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  6. No links to sites with popups, dammit by Bad+Boy+Marty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I swear, there should be an absolute moratorium on permitting links to sites with popup ads in articles (or, for that matter, posts) on Slashdot. At best, it's just rude. But perhaps congress (yeah, the opposite of progress) will wind up inadvertently making popup ads illegal in their insidious efforts to regulate the internet. Well, one can hope, anyway.

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