TiVo SDOC-00091-002 manual Copy Protection and the TiVo Service

Copy Protection, Privacy, and the TiVo Service

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, broadcast 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.

The rest of this chapter provides the full text of the TiVo Privacy Policy and Service Agreement. These documents include more detailed information about copyrighted content accessed through the TiVo service (see section 5 of the TiVo Service Agreement on page 81). To accommodate changes to the TiVo service, the Privacy Policy and Service Agreement are updated from time to time. You can always find the latest versions of these documents online at www.tivo.com/privacy.

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