Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[email protected]> wrote:
When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
a right to modify that copy.
But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any
more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and
they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike
you).
So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not
(cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that
anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to
deploy the software on a particular platform.
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fm
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