Network-DVR Decision Emphatic

NETWORK-DVR DECISION EMPHATIC
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Mike Farrell]
U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin issued a strongly worded decision Thursday that appears to have effectively squashed Cablevision Systems’ plans to roll out a remote-storage digital-video recorder (RS-DVR), stating that the technology would allow Cablevision and its customers to engage “in unauthorized reproductions and transmissions of plaintiffs' copyrighted programs.” Judge Chin seemed unconvinced of Cablevision’s key argument -- that its product was merely an extension of set-top DVRs because it would be the customer and not the company who would control what is recorded, stored and watched via the device. judge Chin noted that while Cablevision elected to make programming on all of its 170 channels available on the device, it could choose to block certain channels. He pointed to testimony that Cablevision had originally expected to offer 12-50 channels on the RS-DVR device.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6427293.html?display=Breaking+News

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