[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/27/14, 2:44 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:39 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:53:25AM -0600, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:26, <CACook at Quantum-Sci.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you know that ReplayTV was sued out of existence for this very thing,
>>> ReplayTV was sued out of existence because they allowed sharing of content between different users.
>>      I thought it was the MythTV style commercial skipping.
> It was both.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replaytv#Legal_battle
>
> Eric
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Commercial skipping probably would have not prevailed, had the case
proceeded through the courts. Prior art in the form of old RCA VCR's had
a commercial skip feature that went unchallenged.
But, the sharing of premium content, minus its DRM would most certainly
have failed before the court.