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 dont like it [Sling] because they think it violates their copyrights, HBO CTO Bob Zitter said during a panel here Tuesday. Zitters 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 wasnt eager to expand on his on-stage comments. He told Light Reading: Im 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 dont think I want to say.
Two words to content owners that don’t like us using Sling to place/time shift:
FAIR USE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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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.