High Court Allows Remote-Storage DVR System

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 29, 2009 @01:36PM from the score-one-for-the-cable-guy dept.

Immutate and several other readers noted that Cablevision will be allowed to go ahead with deploying a remote-storage DVR system, when the US Supreme Court declined (without comment) to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that went against movie studios and TV networks. (We discussed this case a few months back.) "Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials. The justices declined to hear arguments on whether Cablevision Systems Corp.'s remote-storage DVR system would violate copyright laws. That allows the... company to proceed with plans to start deploying the technology this summer."

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Ad-skipping as a priority by keith134 · 2009-06-29 14:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Actually I could maybe see ad-skipping becoming slightly less of a priority now that Billy Mays is gone...
1. Re:Ad-skipping as a priority by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-29 14:52 · Score: -1, Troll
  
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