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TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-thought-we-could-be-friends dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TiVo's quarterly call was a bit more dramatic than usual. While they continue to lose customers and innovate 'at a very unhurried pace,' TiVo seeks a repeat DISH Network performance in going after AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) for infringement. Basically, TiVo's current business model appears to be ad sales and patent trolling."

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  1. Re:How is this a Patent Troll? by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Troll

    would by many be said to have created the home digital recorder

    IMO if you're trying to collect on an obvious idea, you're a patent troll. I doubt there's a single slashdotter here (except maybe NYCL) who couldn't have made a DVR out of an old laptop, a few roofing nails and a bananna. And most of us could have done it without the nails and bananna.

    They shouldn't be able to hold a patent. Also, didn't I see somewhere here a year or so ago that they used GPL code illegally? How's that turn out?

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