JUDGE NIXES CABLEVISION'S PLAN FOR REMOTE DVR'S

A U.S. District Court judge in New York has ruled in favor of content providers who had charged that Cablevision would violate copyright laws if it provided large servers at its headend for subscribers instead of in-home digital video recorders. Cablevision had planned to launch what it called a "Remote-Storage DVR System" but Judge Denny Chin, ruling in favor of the broadcast and cable networks that had sued Cablevision, said that the cable company "would engage in public performance of plaintiffs' copyrighted works in operating its proposed RS-DVR service."

26/03/2007