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Originally Posted by FFR
With all this talk of PVR's and legal and illegal stuff...Does anyone know what the stance will be regarding using Windows Media Center as a PVR? Already we've been experiencing some issues with Shaw (as a cable provider) adding codes on to certain programs that will not allow us to record them as we are not using a Shaw PVR, but I'm wondering if this new Bill will affect us even more.
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That's excatly the technology they are.. and will be using, but before this bill it wasn't illegal to come up with a way around it. Things like Windows Media Center currently respects the content byte, and as such you can't recording programs you are "not allowed" to . That will continue down the road, and every show will have the byte set in some form or other, regardless of this bill. This bill is aimed at stoping people from downloading the same show, and playing it from thier Windows Media Center to get around that.
Basically.. Someone paid the network alot of money to show a local commerical during LOST. The advertisers want to be guranteed that they get what they paid for. They want to be sure you don't SKIP, DELAY, or see the commercial ment for Dallas, on your Calgary TV ...
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