I saw TiVo's announcement on Monday about providing TiVo owners the ability to pull recordings from their TiVos and put them onto their PSPs and/or iPod videos. Hey, thought I, that's a nice feature. Kudos to TiVo for doing that. You can do similar things with MythTV but not nearly as simply as with a TiVo and TiVoToGo. Sure, TiVo says they're watermarking the video to try to discourage people from uploading those videos to the Internet, but they have to do something to placate the TV and movie execs, right?
Well, apparently that wasn't enough. Since there's no digital rights management (DRM) attached to the files, and therefore (gasp!) OTHER PEOPLE could watch their precious shows, apparently they're pretty POed at TiVo.
I know that stuff like DRM is probably only a real issue for geeks like me, but ultimately, people know when they're being treated like customers and when they're being treated like thieves. If media companies continue to make their products inconvenient to watch or listen to, people will move on to media that is not hobbled. Or at least I sure hope they do.
Entertainment industry voicing threats against free portable content
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