Cable

Good news. The second circuit court has said that even if a provider records television for you in the cloud based on your choices, and then lets you play it back by streaming it, it is still just time-shifting, and is fair use.

This is one of the somewhat no-brainer solutions for television, that are much much easier than a lot of the currently utilized systems, but that never could be done because of the chilling effect of copyright fear.

Watching my parents use at&t’s u-verse is sad to me. The video quality is not great, and when someone runs 3 minutes over, as with tivo, you’ve missed it. If your cable goes out for 1 minute in the middle of a show, that ruins your copy. There is no reason for this. We can transmit files across a network at 100% reliability. This weird scenario where everyone tries to mimic the VCR because that is the only solution that has been court tested is finally over hopefully.