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posted by mpawlo
on Sunday June 01, @06:57AM
from the don't-try-this-at-home dept.
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Mr Raffi Krikorian's book on Tivo hacks is due this summer. Tivo is a digital recording device, with VCR functionality but running GNU/Linux and a harddrive instead of the big black tapes. Mr Krikorian is using the GNU/Linux system and hardware configuration in order to make the Tivo box do anything but barking or stealing Tivo's services. Although the company behind Tivo is not endorsing the hacks it doesn't seem too nervous about Mr Krikorian's activities. The hacks supposedly increases the value of the Tivo box by adding features, such as longer recording times. Compared to Sony's legal actities concerning the Aibo dog, Tivo seems to have adopted a sensible approach. What content providers think of all this is unclear, but some may host nightmares of the Betamax doctrine (Sony Corporation v. Universal Studios, Inc).
Read more in Wired.
Additions in Mr Krikorian's weblog.
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