Supreme Court Nixes Challenge to Network DVR Rollout

Cablevision has cleared the final legal hurdle in its fight to bring network DVR service to its subscriber base, as the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge from television networks and Hollywood studios alleging the remote-storage architecture violates copyright laws.

The high court’s decision to reject the complaint affirms an earlier ruling by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that Cablevision’s network DVR service, which stores captured content on servers at the head-end, is fundamentally identical to what end-users experience while using traditional set-top DVR.

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