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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson AT realmeasures.dyndns.org>, C-FIT_Community AT realmeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community AT realmeasures.dyndns.org, fairuse-discuss AT mrbrklyn.com, DMCA_Discuss AT lists.microshaft.org
  • Cc: "CommStudios" <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Reno_Perl_Group" <renotahoe-pm AT pm.org>, "Seul.org" <seul-edu AT seul.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Movie and TV Industries Force SonicBlue to Spy on Customers
  • Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:39:21 -0700

Hi: Gee, this sounds like a good deal. Makes you want to run out and buy
one, eh? Sort of fits with the RIAA toilet dilemma for viewer position
they've adopted.

"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."

`It's an incredible invasion of privacy,'' said Fred von Lohmann, an
intellectual property expert for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ``But
second -- and equally important -- is what the Electronic Frontier Foundation
and others have been saying was going to happen now for some time. Basically,
under the guise of copyright laws, courts are going to be put in a position
of telling technology companies how to build their products.''

The above quotes leave no doubt in my mind that M$ is celebrating, and
rolling out their DRM with additional privacy intrusion features, they never
thought possible.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Friday 03 May 2002 06:59, Seth Johnson wrote:
> (Forwarded from Free Dmitry Sklyarov list,
> free-sklyarov AT zork.net)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:49:04 -0400
> From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms AT computerbytesman.com>
>
>
> 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
>
> ============================================================
>
> 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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