TiVo Agrees To Limits On Pay-Per-View Programming!
According to this article, TiVo and ReplayTV have agreed to limit how long you can keep a pay-per-view movie on your TiVo.
The article states that starting in the spring of 2005, TiVo will start to ship boxes with this limitation built in.
One control would limit recording to 90 minutes — essentially enough time for a viewer to watch an on-demand movie. Another would allow a movie to be stored for up to seven days but once the film was started it must be viewed within 24 hours. Another would allow unlimited viewing within a seven-day period.
This is obviously not something that TiVo customers have asked for….
September 14th, 2004 at 3:27 pm |
Copyright laws and Betamax
Today is SaveBetaMax day which urges people to call into their congressmen to prevent the INDUCE Act from becoming law. According to opponents of the legislation, it could set back copyright law for devices such as VCRs and Tivos in favor of copyright…