Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Not Challenged based on fair
use? (Score 1) 481  by mc+sd (#11753758) Attached to: Court Says
FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV This is an excellent question.
Fair use however perhaps ought not to be confused with the Sony
ruling which was about Time shifting (not saying you're doing
that, but they often get conflated).  Fair use, you may recall,
only allows partial copying of a work for certain uses (social
comment, research), not the making of complete copies for
personal use, which is what most people want with their TiVo's.
I could be wrong, but my understanding of fair use is that it
would not be helpful in such a case because of the strict rules
about how much of an artefact can actually be copied.  The Sony
case was more about personal use, with the likely understanding
that copies would be temporary for convenience, not for long
term archiving or sharing.