[FYI] (Fwd) FC: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing viewing choices

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Subject:        	FC: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
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From: "Paczkowski, John" <JPaczkowski@knightridder.com>
To: "'declan@well.com'" <declan@well.com>
Subject: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:34:31 -0400

' morning declan:

a bit of news for you from today's merc.

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.

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

take good care,

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From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms@computerbytesman.com>
To: <declan@well.com>
Subject: Movie studios and TV networks force SonicBlue to spy on their
customers Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:37:42 -0400

Hi,

The copyright battle between content companies and technology
companies hit a new all-time low yesterday in Los Angeles. According
to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, a federal judge in Los
Angeles, at the request of major movie studios and TV networks, is
compelling SonicBlue to spy on the viewing habits of individual
ReplayTV customers. SonicBlue doesn't have this type of tracking
software today, but was given 60 days by the court to create it and
install it on customer ReplayTV boxes using the auto-update feature of
the boxes.

This move by the court and content companies is exactly the problem I
warned about on March 1, 2002 in a piece I did on Senator Hollings's
proposed CBDTPA bill.  This piece can be found here at my Web site:

     Anti-piracy technology means more surveillance, less privacy
     http://www.computerbytesman.com/copyprotect/hollings.htm

I hope that everyone who is concerned about the ever expanding misuse
of copyright law willing speak out on the dangerous precedent being
set here by this court ruling.  Hopefully Soniclue will be able to
overturned the ruling on appeal.

Thanks,
Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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

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

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.

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