DISQUS

I don't agree that TiVo should get in trouble for letting it's customers convert their TV shows into a different video file format so they can be viewed on the iPod. We're talking about people who had legal access to the show (on broadcast or cable) and made a copy and now just want to watch that show on a portable player. They're basically charging for a video file conversion service on a per show basis. If someone amassed a huge library of TV shows legally on the Betamax tapes and just realized they want to switch to VHS or DVD, I don't see why it would be a big deal for a company to do the conversion for them. Yes, the company would have to charge money. That's what computers are designed to do: convert from CD to hard drive and network card to the printer and so on. A computer is really just a digital photocopier. There's nothing wrong with that.