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Originally Posted by Barcey
A lot of the arguments you're making are the same that the broadcasters used when they argued that VCR's and PVR's had to be illegal. I don't believe that they were correct at the time and I don't believe in your absolutes. You have your opinions and others have theirs. The point is that the decision on what is or isn't allowed shouldn't be a unilateral decision made by party deploying DRM. If it's ruled a fair exemptions, it's a fair exemption.
For what it's worth, I don't feel strongly that a PVR for Netflix is a fair exemption. I just understand the viewpoint that it should be. Their payment model is a monthly fee and it's not a pay per view so I understand why people view it as equivalent to their cable service.
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But the cable service is ad supported.
(And the content owners have *won* a lot of their battles over how time and place shifting can be done. Remember Aereo?)
And you do realize that a lot of cable is drm'ed and expires even when PVR'ed, right? That digital cable HD can't be pvr'ed outside the cableco boxes?
More, cable isn't viewable everywhere. It is tethered and they charge extra for viewing in different rooms. Netflix lets you roam and watch anywhere there is broadband.
They're trying to force Netflix to do something cable can't do by comparing it to cable. That is not going go pass muster.
Easy win for the "bad" guys.