Cablevision appeals court ruling
Cablevision Systems Corp. said on Tuesday it is
filing an appeal of a recent U.S. court ruling barring it from launching a
digital video recorder service that stores television shows on its
servers.
Cablevision Systems Corp. said on Tuesday it is filing an appeal of a recent U.S. court ruling barring it from launching a digital video recorder service that stores television shows on its servers.
Our remote-storage DVR is the same as conventional DVRs, and merely enables consumers to exercise their well-established rights to time-shift television programming,” Cablevision Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge said in a statement.
“We continue to believe strongly that remote-storage DVR is permissible under current copyright laws,” he added.
Cablevision - silly people - believed that recording movies and programs which they already pay licensing fees for was allowable. They wanted to offer a video-on-demand service as an alternative to set-top DVR’s.
The media companies want more license fees paid - to use the existing license fees.
Posted: Tue - April 10, 2007 at 08:34 AM