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In 20th Century Fox Film Corp. v. Cablevision Systems Corp., 478 F. Supp. 2d 607 (S.D.N.Y. 2007), a federal district court permanently enjoined Cablevision from offering its customers a “remote storage DVR” (RS-DVR) service (like a TiVo, except that the hard drive where the content is stored is located at the cable company’s office, not in your living room) without paying royalties to the copyright holders whose works were recorded on the device. The case was appealed to the Second Circuit, which yesterday heard oral argument. Bill Patry was there, and his comments on the panel argument are well worth a look. (As a reminder to our readers, I’m not an entirely impartial observer here.)

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