A U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled that Cablevision’s DVR service does not infringe on the rights of subject matter holders.

“We do not believe that an RS-DVR customer is sufficiently distinguishable from a VCR user to impose liability as a direct infringer on a different party for copies that are made automatically upon that customer’s command,” according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Cablevision’s RS-DVR Paradigm

Cablevision offers a different type of

DVR than the traditional TiVo. The company is pushing what’s called RS-DVR, or remote storage digital video recorder, service. From the customer’s end, the service works just like a TiVo. But the shows aren’t stored on a hard drive within a set-top box. Rather, the shows are stored on Cablevision’s servers and transmitted to customers when they decide to watch them.

Cablevision’s approach to DVR came under fire by some heavy hitters in […]

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