IP: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

I assume they or someone will appeal djf

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 16:25:40 
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices

SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on
thousands of digital video recorder users -- monitoring every show they
record, every commercial they skip and every program they send
electronically to a friend.

Central District Court Magistrate Charles F. Eick told SonicBlue to gather
``all available information'' about how consumers use the Santa Clara
company's latest generation ReplayTV 4000 video recorders, and turn the
information over to the film studios and television networks suing it for
contributing to copyright infringement.

``We've been ordered to invade the privacy of our customers,'' said Ken
Potashner, SonicBlue's chairman and chief executive. ``This is something
that we find personally very troubling.''

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http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm

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