HBO Doesn’t Like Slingbox

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Does it really come as any surprise that HBO isn’t in favor of place shifting? If you recall, HBO petitioned the FCC to ban DVR recording too.

Light Reading says: “Content owners don’t like it [Sling] because they think it violates their copyrights,” HBO CTO Bob Zitter said during a panel here Tuesday. Zitter’s comment came in response to a question from the audience concerning how new technologies are changing the way content is distributed. After his keynote address here, HBO’s Zitter wasn’t eager to expand on his on-stage comments. He told Light Reading: “I’m not going to go any deeper into it than that. There are still a number of legal issues that need to be worked out.” Asked if legal proceedings were underway against Sling, Zitter said: “Not involving us, but from others.” When asked if HBO was planning such legal actions, Zitter replied: “I don’t think I want to say.”

2 thoughts on “HBO Doesn’t Like Slingbox”

  2. Fair Use is already history for most consumers. Deep pocketed media companies have paid for laws like the DMCA and are implementing DRM right and left in a direct effor to undermine it.

    Most people don’t even know that they have the legal right to make a backup copy of the DVD they bought.

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