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TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed

Posted by timothy on from the when-patents-beat-sense dept.

zapakh writes "A federal appeals court this week upheld a lower court decision that accused DISH Network and EchoStar of continuing to infringe on TiVo patents.' This is a follow-on to a Slashdot story from October. Despite a 'Herculean effort' by EchoStar in redesigning its DVR software, the ruling agrees with the district court that that was not a major redesign of the software. The patent in question is titled 'Multimedia time warping system.' TiVo is pleased with the ruling."

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  1. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV by sakdoctor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok I read up a bit on wikipedia.

    It's a Conditional-access module. Is it roughly pcmcia sized, or actually a pcmcia card?
    Freesat specifies a pcmcia slot for CAM, as well as an ethernet port for future use among other things.

    If you scroll right to the bottom of the EPG, there are a few ghetto channels that need a CAM, but I can't imagine anyone caring about that.