[mythtv-users] DISH Receivers and external HDDs

[steve]

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Brian Wood wrote:
| On Apr 13, 2008, at 5:16 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
|> I'm convinced the US Patent Office has given up on trying to vet
|> patents, and is now relying on the legal system to decide which ones
|> are
|> valid.
|
| That wouldn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that the DISH
| attorneys were not able to blow that patent out of the water. We were
| using digital hard-drive-based systems to time shift in the early
| 1990s, and we couldn't have been the only ones doing it.
|
| I guess "Prior Art" doesn't mean anything anymore.
|
| Does this mean Myth is (potentially) infringing TiVo's patent?
| Actually I guess it would be the Myth users who might be doing so.
|
| Remember that person a while back asking for info on who was using
| more than one tuner? He seemed to disappear pretty fast after I
| pointed out it was possibly related to that lawsuit.
|
| beww
|


yeah, but I think they have larger fish to fry than a community project
such as this.  Its like the RIAA and the occasional downloader, they
wont bother with them, theyre after the people that are heavy seeders,
and those who share in other methods.  I do believe we are safe..... for
now at least.



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Steve Reilly

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