[mythtv-users] "Odometer" Threads

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Feb 6 16:34:24 UTC 2008


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:38:41AM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>> With the recent victory by TiVo over DISH regarding the infringement of 
>> the patent for recording one program while watching another, do we 
>> really want to be giving out information that might be used against us?
> 
> Wow.
> 
> Does anyone have that patent number handy?  I haven't read it, but I'm
> pretty sure it's actually bogus.  Anyone an EFF member?
> 
> Excellent point, though, Brian; I hadn't thought of that.

I'm an EFF member. I learned of the recent decision from an article in 
my local newspaper, admittedly not a great source of accurate information.

I didn't see anything on the EFF site, but I did find this:

http://www.pvrwire.com/category/dish-network/

beww


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