“By including Macrovision with its products, TiVo is designing a product that is intended to control its owner and treat its owner (TiVo’s customer) as an attacker. They’ve added a swatch of functions that act directly against a user’s interests [and in] so doing, they’ve created a bunch of potential failures in which the user is locked out of her own equipment.” — from a BoingBoing posting.
TiVo Goes to the Dark Side
Opinion
Oct 11, 20061 min
