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TiVo, ReplayTV Agree to Limits
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?"
Their argument for this is bogus. If they think pay-per-view is cutting into the videotape rentals that they so bitterly opposed (you should check out the problems blockbuster had when they first started up), then they should charge more for pay-per-view. It seems like everytime a technological advance comes along, the MPAA has to be dragged kicking and screaming....into a big pile of money. I wish they would stop their whining.
If they really want to get serious about this, it's obvious that they should be working on limiting how long people are allowed to remember the intellectual property they've consumed, much less how long they are allowed to keep it available.
I know that if I were still in the driver's seat, I would be ordering up plans on how to reliably blank the memories of the stinking mass of sheeple that suck the generous teat of mass media. Not only would it allow us to sell the same thing over and over, none of you bastards would even remember enough to care about 'fair use' and all that malarky. sheesh.
signed,
Ted Turner
Copies of Max Headroom, Alf cartoons, Animaniacs, coverage of Gulf War, etc. all will go when the VHS tapes they are on finally decay.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Sounds like a feature to me.
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For the love of anything that's holy, stop saying boxen..
"How to permanently keep your recorded data"
It's sure a good thing that Joe-PVR user knows how to install gentoo!
So long as I get to keep the PPV movies for "limited times" as defined by the Supreme Court "justices" that upheld the CTEA, I'm fine with it.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
If the memory erasing device featured in Men in Black was ever invented, I can see the MPAA standing outside every movie theater in America flashing the audience as they depart.
"Sorry, you have no rights to remember any portion of this movie. Your brain is in violation of international copyrights."