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Appendix B: Copy Protection and the TiVo Service
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Copy protection and the TiVo
®
service
The TiVo service allows you to enjoy many kinds of media content:
television programs, movies, digital music and photos, and new
forms of entertainment delivered by broadband.
Copyright is a form of legal protection provided to the authors of
media content. Copyright holders may set limits on how their
content may be used. And content providers may restrict or limit the
ability to record, display, view or transfer any particular program
using a variety of copy protection mechanisms.
Different types of content may require different types of copyright
protection. For example, programs may be encoded with rules that
specify how long a program can be saved, whether it can be copied
to another device, or whether it can be recorded at all.
TiVo, along with all other licensees of copyright protection
technology, respects the rules defined by the copyright holder. As
such, the TiVo service incorporates technology that ensures that you
are allowed to enjoy the content, and that the copyright holder is
protected.
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