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Microsoft gets the US ITC to investigate Tivo
PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER outfit Tivo is the target of Microsoft's wrath as the Redmond based company has asked the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate the set-top box company.
Despite Tivo having sold its time-shifting video boxes for donkeys years in the US and Microsoft having nothing to do with the technology, the software giant claims that Tivo infringes patents.
According to the ITC's website, "The products at issue in this investigation are hardware and software that allow users to receive signal content from a variety of sources and include such features as an electronic program guide, the ability to receive on-demand content, etc."
Microsoft has Sky player on its Xbox and so can stream UK telly, but it's hardly a Tivo like service. Tivo supports its video recorders in the UK although they are no longer sold here, unless you can buy on one Ebay.
Tivo provided the original personal video recording device that can record whole series of TV programmes. Tivo uses the Linux operating system, and in the US Tivo use is widespread, so this attack is not only another attempt by the Vole to get into another market and bodge it up but also a stealthly patents attack on Linux. µ
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Seeing how Micr0$uck$ invented the internet and the personal computer, anything TIVO does cannot help but infringe on their innovative intellectual property.
TiVo are BRICKING all series 1 boxes for UK people, because they are launching a new version.
So, all the people who paid for 'Lifetime' sub are royally screwed. My S1 hardware continues to work just fine.
I hope that Microsoft win in court against TiVo.
TiVo = greedy & untrustworthy, IMHO.
Microsoft seems to think it clever to try and pick off the stragglers from the open-source flock with continued lawsuits and bullying tactics.
They do not seem to realize that each incident like this in effect is the worst advertising they could obtain. It just crystallizes their image as a Big Ugly Corporate Bully in people's minds. Their is nothing "cool" about trying to destroy freedom of choice in the marketplace, instead of competing on innovation and features.
There is nothing "cool" about two-faced actions like stating that they support open source, yet continuing at every opportunity to try and eradicate it in favor of proprietary patented software.
Eventually most people figure out that a dollar spent on Microsoft products or services is a dollar that goes to fund decreased consumer freedom. And their is nothing "cool" about that.