[mythtv-users] [OT] Commercial Nosiness

[J. Donavan Stanley]

steve at nexusuk.org wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ethan McDonald wrote:
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>>Yeah, like that will never be subpoenaed in a court of law.
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>I'm very supprised how public TiVo are in the amount of data they collect 
>- people generally don't like spyware, and it gives the advertisers more 
>ammo when they complain about PVRs cutting the number of people who see 
>their ads.
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They've also been very specific about how they only collect aggregate 
data.  Every year this comes up somewhere like it's new news or 
something. And Ethan, it'll never get subpoenaed because there's nothing 
to subpoena.  Unless the number of people who watched segment X of 
channel Y would be of more use.

What ticks me off about Tivo is how the record their infomercials in the 
middle of the night without my permission.