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Court orders video spying: SONICBLUE TO SURVEY CUSTOMER RECORDERS
San Jose Mercury News ^
| Fri, May. 03, 2002
| Dawn C. Chmielewski
Posted on 05/03/2002 10:13:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on thousands of digital video recorder users -- monitoring every show they record, every commercial they skip and every program they send electronically to a friend.
Central District Court Magistrate Charles F. Eick told SonicBlue to gather ``all available information'' about how consumers use the Santa Clara company's latest generation ReplayTV 4000 video recorders and turn the information over to the film studios and television networks suing it for contributing to copyright infringement.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billofrights; computersecurityin; copyrightissue; infringement; privacy; privacylist; replaytv; techindex
Talk about something obscene!
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To: GummyIII
A fri night fyi
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To: onesog
Four separate lawsuits focus on a pair of features on the ReplayTV 4000; an ``AutoSkip'' function that allows the device to bypass commercials while recording a program; and a high-speed Internet port that allows users to download programs from the Internet or send them to other ReplayTV 4000 users.You know SONY has a PC line The VAIO that has all kinds of neat stuff on it including the ability to connect to the internet and record like a VCR , etc!
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Starting at $799.99
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The next step for the Hollywood lawyers is a lawsuit against anyone who uses the VCR fast forward button to skip commercials, or the volume control to turn them down.
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posted on
05/03/2002 10:54:45 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: Southack;grampa dave;
ping!
To: Privacy_list;seamole;
Indexing ping!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Or get one of
these and save yourself $600!
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posted on
05/03/2002 11:37:12 PM PDT
by
ledzep75
To: ledzep75
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posted on
05/03/2002 11:39:27 PM PDT
by
ledzep75
To: ledzep75
I may look at those thingy's!
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The magistrate, who is supervising discovery, ordered the company to write software in the next 60 days that would record every ``click'' from every customer's remote control. Any possibility of configuring a hardware firewall to munch either the 'firmware upgrade' or 'snoop' packets?
I knew there was something I liked about the RioVolt SP100--no way that thing can run any snoopware.
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posted on
05/04/2002 11:02:04 PM PDT
by
supercat
To: supercat; ledzep75
Just go to the link : ledzep75 posted above at Post #11!
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