Cablevision Sued for Network 'DVR' Plan Four major studios, three TV networks... Thursday May 25 2006 11:57 EDT As was expected, four major studios and three television networks have sued Cablevision for their plan to eliminate the residential DVR, instead allowing users to store and control content from the Cablevision network side (see previous report). An MPAA spokesperson tells Reuters Cablevision "can't establish a for-profit, on-demand service without authorization from copyright owners whose content is used on that service." "This lawsuit is without merit, reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of Cablevision's remote-storage DVR and ignores the enormous benefit and well-established right of viewers to time-shift television programming," said Cablevision in a statement. "We hope and expect the court will allow our customer-friendly technological approach to move forward." |
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oliphant
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2006-May-25 9:57 am
Cablevision ought to start running spots...Run spots about the MPAA and these channels wanting to deny customers this stuff and give phone numbers so that customers can flood the MPAA and their whining schoolgirl members with phone calls.
The MPAA which quickly find itself on the wrong side of a PR war and get their member networks unneeded heat.
And if the MPAA wants to try and bully Cablevision or other operators, the telcos and cable operators ought use their "union" to set price caps for channels so that if the MPAA members ever want their crap seeing a single customer, they'll straighten up and fly right.
The MPAA would quickly STFU when their membership starts running into roadblocks or starts seeing their channels get dropped by major cable operators.
The MPAA needs DBS and cable operators more than cable and DBS operators need the MPAA (as cable operators just start or buy their own channels). | |
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