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whollymindless
05-18-2009, 03:58 AM
Is there a SANE reason why ALL Revision 3 TiVo downloads appear to be marked as copy protected? If it's Creative Commons, I'd expect it to be open.

Any decent reason or just an oversight?

bmwt
05-18-2009, 10:39 PM
that's a function of the tivo software- when grabbing from an external source other then tuners, it seems to mark *everything* as copy protected (as there's no broadcast flag to look at to make the call.) Basically- if it doesn't know for sure a source allows the copy, it defaults to no.

whollymindless
05-19-2009, 02:58 AM
It certainly could be an oversight, but certainly we could "un-oversight" it pretty quickly!

bmwt
05-19-2009, 05:52 PM
alas, it's the tivo end of things making this determination- there's no flag for us to set to "free" the video once it's been transfered to your DVR. The same thing would happen if you transfered a home movie to your DVR.