In February, TiVo filed with the FCC for broadcast flag certification under the Digital Broadcast Content Protection Rule: Broadcast Flag Certification of TiVo
The MPAA and NFL filed oppositions to TiVo’s certification, arguing that new TiVo features which allow TiVo subscribers to make recorded programs more portable should be subject to more stringent regulation. The Washington Post reports: TiVo’s plans lead to copyright fight
In a white paper, the MPAA argues that TiVoGuard does not prevent widespread indiscriminate redistribution of broadcast content and permits copyright infringing conduct. Additionally, remote access technologies such as TiVoGuard threaten the viability of the Local Broadcasting System. MPAA filing: Legal and Policy Issues Raised by TiVoGuard
The NFL filed a comment opposing the certification of TiVo. The NFL wants to continue to limit the markets to which NFL games may be broadcast and be able to sell the NFL Sunday Ticket at an absurd premium to DirecTV subscribers, but fears that a TiVo video sharing service will harm the market.
Access all the filed comments by search in the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System for Proceeding “04-63”
TiVo’s less commercially successful competitor ReplayTV offered an internet video sharing feature, which was the controversial subject of litigation. However, DNNA, the new owners of ReplayTV, dropped the Internet Video Sharing feature from the latest version of the ReplayTV.
PVRBlog: TiVo: you can only innovate if the NFL and MPAA say so
What is most shocking about the objections is that TiVo ToGo is an already crippled version of something TiVo hackers and users of software PVRs like Windows Media Center and Snapstream have been doing for years now.
