Digital Rights: Give Peace a Chance

Why is it that Hollywood marriages never seem to last? Just last winter, it looked as if gadget makers and content providers had finally settled on a plan to prevent the Napsterization of digital-video broadcasts. Now comes word that the seven major Hollywood studios and the National Football League are already complaining that one of their partners has broken its vows. They're trying to block digital-recording pioneer TiVo (TIVO ) from rolling out a new technology that allows subscribers to use the Internet to legally transfer their recorded shows to nine other devices, including PCs and laptops. ... BW Online link