[mythtv] TiVo versus MCE versus my cable company

[Florin Andrei]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:43 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:

>     a) They stop ordinary users from conveniently copying the data,
>     and slow advanced users down.
> 
>     b) They allow creation of industry cartels for media related
>     hardware and software, so that nobody can come in with competing
>     tools without joining the cartel first.

I believe they advertise reason A out loud, while in fact it's B that
interests them.

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Florin Andrei

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