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TiVo, ReplayTV Agree to Limits

Posted by michael on Friday September 10, 2004 @08:12AM from the there-should-be-limits-to-freedom dept.

Grump writes "This story reports that 'The makers of TiVo and ReplayTV digital video recorders have agreed to limit how long consumers can keep pay-for-view movies stored on future versions of the VCR-like devices.' Is this fair, or erosion of more fair-use rights?"

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Re:TiVo Limits by Blimey85 · 2004-09-10 08:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

For years, this meant I watched crap. Now that I have a TiVo, I can watch good shows.
You mean:
For years, this meant I watched crap. Now that I have a TiVo I can watch the same crap, but whenever I want to, not just when the networks want me to.

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