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IP: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:19:09 -0500
I assume they or someone will appeal djf -----Original Message----- 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.'' --SNIP-- http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- geoff.goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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