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DVRs – entertainment’s ‘new best friend’
p2pnet news view TV | P2P:- Digital Video Recorders, “once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend,” says Tim Jones in the EFFs Deep Links . It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s “constant warnings of the dangers of ‘piracy’ frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria,” he says, continuing »»» Remember 2001? Digital Video Recorders (”DVRs”) like TiVo and ReplayTV were poised to win mainstream adoption, allowing consumers to fast-forward past advertisements more easily than before.
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The movie studio crusade to take over your home theater system just got an endorsement from Time Warner Cable, whose top staff visited the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last Wednesday to ask, yet again, for permission to let cable operators limit video streams to HDTVs and DVRs. At the meeting, representatives of TWC and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) backed the scheme being pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA): Hollywood would send movies to cable before they appear on DVD, but the cable operators would clamp down on some of the features found in their subscribers’ TV systems. Specifically, consumers wouldn’t be able to receive these flicks from an analog connection, which the studios say is more susceptible to piracy than a digital stream.
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