The hopeless fight to maintain business models based on artificial scarcity reaches ever-greater heights of lunacy. Picking up where Mad Jack Valenti left off, the MPAA (along with the NFL) has decided that TiVo's a threat to their industry because future enhancements may cause more people to actually watch stuff.
Attaway said that even if TiVo's system prevents mass Internet distribution, if each of TiVo's customers add 10 devices to a registered group, many potentially unrelated users would be able to see the copied show.Advertisers and product-placers take note: the MPAA doesn't want people to see movies or shows.
