TiVo again

Story


TiVo and other digital video recorders let users skip commercials and jump around a recording quickly. Since TiVo introduced its DVR in the late 1990s, customers have enjoyed the ability to record anything they want, and store it indefinitely.

But last year, TiVo quietly disclosed that it would employ copyright-protection software from Macrovision Corp. for pay-per-view and video-on-demand programs. According to a post on TiVo's Web site, the software allows broadcasters to restrict how long a DVR can save certain recordings or in some cases prevent someone from recording altogether.


This goes under the heading of false advertising, specifically... making promises you can't keep.

TiVo is a box that sits on your TV that records TV shows.

Guess what ? The guys who make TiVo don't make the TV shows, those are different people entirely. And when the makers of those TV shows say "Don't record my show ! Or I'll sue you ! " guess what kind of position that puts TiVo in ?

They are renting out a service that they cannot deliver on , basically. It aint their movies. It aint their TV shows. They're in the position of a member of the general public taping movies to play back later instead of paying for them, thus violating the rights of the movie makers.

Dump TiVo , and infact TV , entirely. Buy a movie every two weeks, maybe a rush of purchases at the beginning to build up you're library there's always some cheap second hand stuff kicking around of old movies you can grab, and after that a movie a month is cheaper than any cable TV bill will ever be.