Comments on: Bringing prime time to video iPod

Small developer sees an opening in the lag for Apple to offer top-level TV shows at the iTunes store.

[nasser0000]

Why no flap over this?

They're making a big deal about the Tivo thing. This is a small company which I would assume the "big boys" could crush. Why no flap over this?

[R. U. Sirius]

Because

the mpaa and riaa are too busy suing unwed mothers I guess.

[Joe Blow]

Proxure Only Has ~1,000 Users ...

and, at $30 a pop, it's not worth the lawyers' time to even read about it, much less file a lawsuit. Although TiVo has only had one "profitable" quarter in seven years, burned through somewhere around $800 million in investor money, and shows no signs of ever really making a significant profit, they do have an annual revenue stream in the tens of millions of bucks, and that _can_ be sued for (it would probably finally put TiVo out of business, or just sooner than would otherwise have happened, though). If/when the little MyTV ToGo company, Proxure, has amassed enough users/money to make it worth it for the lawyers to stop yawning, say a few hundred thousand users, then the lawyers will "leap" into action, taking several more months to file the paperwork, and who-know-how-many-years before it would go to court and/or be settled in a smoke-filled back room ("OK, Proxure, bend over while we check here for a Prostate ... who's yer daddy, BTW? ... That's what we thought ... " ).

[catchall]

The other question

is why was there a flap over Tivo? Seriously, I've been recording TV to my computer for years. With Media Center (or MythTV), it simply becomes easier to do. And with Media Center, the ability to convert/move content to a portable device has also been around for a while. Nothing really in any of it, just making it a little easier.