Japanese Supreme Court Rules TV Forwarding Illegal

eldavojohn writes "If you use anything like a Slingbox in Japan, you may be dismayed to find out that a Japanese maker of a similar service has been successfully sued by Japan Broadcasting Corp. and five Tokyo-based local TV broadcasting firms under copyright violations for empowering users to do similar things. TV forwarding or place shifting is recording and/or moving your normal TV signal from its intended living room box to your home computer or anywhere on the internet. Turns out that Japan's Supreme Court overruled lower court decisions confirming fears that to even facilitate this functionality is a copyright infringement on the work that is being transferred."

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And nothing of value was lost

[Magada]

Good. The faster they wean the slobbering masses off of TV, the better. It's fast getting to the point where not even the dumbest of the dumb will have the patience to watch huge slices of commercials sandwiched between product-placement "shows".