Corporate Hollywood Murdering TIVO

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In their new software release, TIVO has voluntarily instituted a version of the FCC mandated broadcast flag. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag)

Henceforth your Tivo will automatically delete copyright flagged programs seven days after the program was recorded. It will also prevent you from writing it to a DVD or portable device.



TV when you want, where you want? Big business says: NO!

Don't think that because you have a Time Warner box you'll be spared from this sorts of restricts on your recordings. In addition to owning the second largest cable provider, Time Warner owns the copyrights on a lot of content. They have more motivation than TIVO to cripple thier DVR units with digital rights management(DRM) garbage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management



There are people who would rather spend hours of their time copying every new episode of the Family Guy to DVD-Rs than spend $38 to purchase the season on DVD. Corporate Hollywood can't let this small bit of revenue slip thru its grubby fingers. Therefore all of us have to suffer with DRM restrictions. Rich corporations are using technology to destroy your fair use rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use) for the sake of greed.

This is the future folks. Corporations are going to use this DRM technology and laws like the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (written by the servile Congress they bought and paid for) to dictate what you can and can't do with their "intellectual property". So much for Freedom. Hollywood isn't happy with X billions, they demand X+n billions.

R.I.P. Tivo. You really rocked before corporate Hollywood destroyed you