ReplayTV Users Sue Hollywood

"Users of ReplayTV, with the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are taking legal action against the largest Hollywood studios.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles, five users of ReplayTV 4000 video recorders asked a judge to declare that their use of the devices to record programs and skip over commercials is entirely lawful....

The suit charges that 27 studios, including Disney, Time Warner and NBC, wrongfully claimed that personal use of the devices constitutes copyright infringement." [Wired News]

Addendum: Glenn Fleiscman is one of the plaintiffs!

"This morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of myself and four other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against a group of media companies which had themselves sued Sonic Blue, Inc., and ReplayTV, Inc. The full information is here. This lawsuit is a stand against the erosion of fair use. As a ReplayTV 4000 series owner, I have joined the suit in the interests of all individuals' fair use rights. "There really isn't an opportunity for the consumers voice to be heard in these cases," is what one of the attorneys, Robin Gross said this morning."

"Hollywood faces recurring Net nightmare. Film studios helped shutter a video-on-demand site earlier this year only to see a sequel start up that may be more difficult to stop. [CNET News.com]

Pesky MPAA screwing with your web site? No problem, set it up in Iran.

'If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.' Obi Wan" [Ryan Greene's Radio Weblog]