FCC Approves TiVo Technology

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tivo5aug05.story
FCC Approves TiVo Technology
Hollywood criticizes the decision to allow users to send recorded shows over the Internet to several playback devices.
By Jube Shiver Jr. Times Staff Writer August 5, 2004

WASHINGTON — Over the objection of the entertainment industry, regulators Wednesday approved technology that allows TiVo subscribers to send recorded television shows over the Internet.

<snip>TiVo Inc.'s TiVoGuard was among 13 anti-piracy technologies the FCC certified Wednesday. The ruling came eight months after the FCC ordered that copy protection technology be incorporated into all digital TV recording devices by 2005.<snip>

They balked at TiVoGuard, which lets subscribers zap recorded broadcasts over the Internet to as many as nine playback devices, provided all of the devices share the same TiVo customer account.<snip>

"There's definitely a consumer appetite … for more flexibility in media management," said Meedio Chief Executive Victor Koosh, citing the 2 million hits a day his firm's website receives. "Consumers feel that once you have recorded a program, the way you use it should be up to you."