Slingbox hooks up to your cable set-top box and lets you, through a client on your PC, watch TV just as if you were home. It’s a concept called “place shifting,” as opposed to the “time shifting” theory behind Tivo and other PVRs. While they let you watch your TV any time you want, Slingbox lets you watch it any place you want. (Cool Tools guru Keith Shaw’s reviewed the device last summer and loved it.)
MLB is defending its position with the argument that it only sells transmission rights for “a specific geographic region.” The league wants users to pay for the rights to place shift, even though users are watching the feed for their region, just somewhere else.
Considering the league’s inability to properly address the steroid issue in a timely manner *cough*bonds*cough*, this is extra bogus.
Via Boing Boing
