[mythtv-users] CCI Copy Freely Letter Campaign

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:19 PM jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:33:13PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> > Which is why it's important to try to understand the motivations of a
>> > company like Fox pushing for tighter DRM.  It's clear to see how Time
>> > Warner benefits, but how does Fox?  What are they trying to
>> > accomplish?  What I think they want is more people watching live (and
>> > not skipping ads).  Sending them a letter saying "your practices make
>> > it hard for me to view your content on my handy-dandy auto-commercial
>> > skipping DVR" will fall on deaf ears since that is entirely the point
>> > of their actions.
>>
>>    True. However, doesn't this sort of shenanigan also interfere with
>> a more corporate Tivo and it's little room shifting appliance?
>>
>
> Yes it does impact Tivo, and their tivo-mini product for in home streaming
> and their ios/android apps.

TiVo is "more corporate", but that doesn't at all mean that they're on
the same side as cable companies or broadcasters.  They're still a
relatively bit player compared with those empires, who would gladly
see TiVo crumble into dust, each for their own reasons.  TiVo really
isn't much better off than MythTV in this respect.

Eric