[US News] The US Supreme Court rules provider-based DVRs are legal

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Source: BetaNews
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Cable DVRs are legal: Supreme Court denies appeal of Cablevision decision
The final roadblock for CATV providers to offer server-based recording service to their customers, has been cleared by the nation's highest court.
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published June 29, 2009, 11:55 AM

The last possible effort by movie studios such as 20th Century Fox and cable television producers, including CNN and Cartoon Network, to forestall cable service providers such as Cablevision from providing their customers with DVRs with full commercial-skipping control, was silently shot down this morning in the final session of this year's US Supreme Court term. As a result, last year's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals stating that Cablevision's DVR service did not violate copyright law, stands.

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