Is Cablevision Caving On Remote DVR?

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 05/21/2009 - 00:15

One of the more important copyright lawsuit decisions was last years appeals court ruling in the Cablevision remote DVR case , which we discussed at length at the time.

Cablevision built a remote DVR system. It was almost exactly like a TiVo, except that the device sat in a Cablevision datacenter, rather than next to your television.

Functionally, it was no different. It really was just the length of the wire and where the box sat. Now, using a...

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