[mythtv-users] DISH Receivers and external HDDs

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/13/2008 10:27 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> That lawsuit was totally nuts, digital hard drive systems were being
>> used to record and "time shift" video at least a decade before Tivo
>> ever thought about it.
>>
>
> I beg to differ.  The lawsuit was quite appropriate.  It's the patent
> that's totally nuts (specifically, the granting of the patent, and the
> fact that it wasn't overturned in the lawsuit).  :)

You are correct, the suit followed from the issuance of the patent,  
and that's what was nuts.

Software patents in general are pretty nuts, but this one is over the  
top.

beww