sMoRTy71.com: Pay-per-view limits on TiVo

Pay-per-view limits on TiVo
SiliconValley.com reported last week that TiVo and ReplayTV have agreed to set limits on how customers can store and view pay-per-view and premium content. For example, users may only be able to keep a pay-per-view movie on their TiVo for a limited amount of time (say, 7 days) before it is deleted.

This is yet another example of the MPAA trampling all over the rights of consumers. As the article points out, the movie industry sees the combination of TiVo and pay-per-view as a threat to their DVD rental/purchase revenue stream, so they will force companies like TiVo to comply or face legislation.

In the article, Fred von Lohmann, senior attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says,"Consumers are not the ones who are asking for this so-called feature. And I hope that the marketplace will respond by punishing TiVo and Replay and others that do this." Although I am a big fan of TiVo, I have to agree with him. "This aggression will not stand, man" (BTW, von Lohmann didn't say that, the Dude did).