Mon, August 2, 2004

WP's Rob Pegoraro on the battle that football and the MPAA are waging against TiVo:

[The NFL] is asking manufacturers and viewers to further subsidize team owners who are already gorging themselves at the public trough.

Exactly. The point is, TiVo isn't trying to implement free file-sharing of TV shows willy-nilly. TiVo's files are encrypted, and contain digital rights management technology to keep unauthorized users from opening them. (Otherwise, how would they sell TiVos? One person could just upload every show to the Internet and undercut the TiVo market.)

Sounds like perfect fodder for an Average Mulder column to me.

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Bee Boy — Fri, 8/6/04 11:43am

Update: TiVo wins! TiVo Wins Nod for Users to Share Digital Shows (Reuters)

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