news.yahoo.com — TiVo and Dish have been battling over a key patent that makes digital video recorders work. A TiVo victory?which experts deem likely?would not only resurrect the fledgling company but also encourage a shift in DVR strategies at the major pay TV providers.
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bdeisgnApr 5, 2006
Are you insane? Comparing patents and copyrights to slavery? Talk about exaggeration. Patents and copyrights are NOT bad. What's bad is companies that abuse them and go off suing everything in sight. Without patents and copyrights a photogropher would make no money on his pics, an artist would make no money on an illustration. You obviously have NO idea of what you're talking about.
strahdApr 5, 2006
You will be able to get lifetime subscriptions to Tivo until April 15 2006. But after that, it's all about the monthly fees.
tennmanApr 5, 2006
admit it... you pause a little bit longer than usual on Telemundo when you're channel surfing. There's no shame in that.There's always some fantastically-chested senorita bouncing around on there. TIVO knows you are not innocent. TIVO knows there is joy to be had gazing at a beautiful woman without having to listen to her words. TIVO wants to please you. So enjoy your seven hours of TIVO-suggested "Tiearra de Pasiones" and "La Tormenta". You can always fast forward to the good parts, if you know what I mean.Viva TIVO
giloronApr 5, 2006
But is it a valid patent? Haven't people with tuners in the computers been recording shows while watching a previously recorded one for a long time? Or maybe it has to do with using 2 tuners. Maybe not a lot of people did that, but only because they couldn't afford to. Watching a show while recording another is obvious. TiVo may be using the patent, but they never should have gotten it.
cosborne2000Apr 5, 2006
"doctrine of equivalents"?!GOOD LORD! Not only do we have a patent law that destroys innovation but we have legal hammers like the "doctrine of equivalents" to go even farther. So now you can sue people even if they don't copy your bogus "whats prior art mean?" patent.TIVO failed because of a poor business model. How did they explain the digital recorders that preceded them? I guess mythTV will soon be dead. When I record something with my video capture card will their lawyers be stopping by my house for payment?
aliensoldierApr 5, 2006
@bdeisgn, you said:"Are you insane?"Why attack me instead of my argument. If you disagree with me, then show me how I am wrong. Don't "insult me" and think that somehow that proves that you are correct in your assertions.You also said:"Patents and copyrights are NOT bad."I didn't say they were "bad", I said they were "morally wrong". I think you are mixing up "moral good and bad" with "utilitarian good and bad". (I'm arguing over morality and not utilitarianism as you seem to be.)I'm not arguing whether patents help grow business or science or whatever else would make you think they are "good". I am arguing the "morality" of them.Slavery also can have beneficial effects to businesses and even nations. But it is still morally wrong. The ends do NOT justify the means.