The sale of The Pirate Bay probably ranks as the week’s biggest news for those of us who obsess about copyright issues, followed by the ruling that Usenet.com’s newsgroup-access service infringed on the major record companies’ copyrights and the Supreme Court’s decision not to take Hollywood’s appeal of the Cablevision network DVR ruling
With a victory at the Supreme Court on the issue of network DVR, the next question for Cablevision is going to be how to proceed with rolling out service. And the answer is, they are going to move carefully in an effort not to step on the toes of advertisers.
The U.S. Supreme Court today cleared the way for Cablevision to offer a network DVR service, allowing consumers to record copies of television programming “in the cloud,” rather than on set-top boxes. Without comment, the court refused to review a Court of Appeals ruling that rejected claims by film studios and television networks that the network DVR approach would infringe copyrights.
TiVo shares are up sharply after hours after a federal court in Texas upheld the company’s patents in its closely watched infringement case against EchoStar.
In a stunning ruling that has huge implications for the cable industry, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York has cleared the way for Cablevision (CVC) to offer so-called “network DVRs,” in which consumers would be able to record video programming for future viewing “in the cloud,” rather than relying on the hard-drives in their set-top boxes.
A whole bunch of folks have sent in the “debate” that was held on the BBC Web site last week, starting with regular columnist Bill Thompson trashing Virgin Media, a U.K.-based broadband provider, for agreeing to send out warning “notices” to folks that the entertainment industry claims are file sharing.
At D5 last week, we announced our new RealPlayer, which makes it easy for anyone to download video from the Internet and keep it for personal use. But what I want to discuss today are the divergent reactions to the product and the ideas behind it–it’s basically a Rorschach ink-blot test for how people feel about Internet media and consumer choice.
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