Thursday, August 05, 2004

Hollywood vs. Technology... Part V (I think)

I have written a few times about our friends in hollywood who are against consumers utilizing technology to consumer their content in new ways. Well today it looks like the tech industry has scored a victory as TiVo has won an FCC ruling allowing them to enable "sharing" of content across TiVo set-top boxes. TiVo has been a very good citizen when it comes to trying to play well with content owners, and I am surprised that the MPAA would try and shoot them down in the midst of all the trouble they are already facing. Hollywood should learn to work with companies that respect their rights and not try and shut them down at every turn. Look what happened when they refused to work with Napster, they killed the company only to be challeneged by a more difficult foe in Kazzaa.

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