Request for Reassurance

[matt@thehickmans]

Amazon is alleged to have recently reached out to Kindles with paid for copies of _1984_ and other novels and removed them without the owners' knowledge or expressed consent.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/

Since I can purchase content from Amazon through TiVo, I would like some reassurance from TiVo that they will NEVER delete content at the behest of Amazon or any other content provider with the exception of rented movies etc that were downloaded and then, only at the explicit time limit.

[lessd]

Amazon is alleged to have recently reached out to Kindles with paid for copies of _1984_ and other novels and removed them without the owners' knowledge or expressed consent.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/

Since I can purchase content from Amazon through TiVo, I would like some reassurance from TiVo that they will NEVER delete content at the behest of Amazon or any other content provider with the exception of rented movies etc that were downloaded and then, only at the explicit time limit.

You have my assurance that it will never happen, you can take that to the bank

[TolloNodre]

Since I can purchase content from Amazon through TiVo, I would like some reassurance from TiVo that they will NEVER delete content at the behest of Amazon or any other content owner with the exception of rented movies etc that were downloaded and then, only at the explicit time limit.

Fixed your typo for you there.
In a digital world - you don't own anything you pay for. It's all one big rental...

At least Amazon gave people their money back.

[RonDawg]

While it has never happened to me, a few have reported that Amazon had suddenly made previously re-downloadable videos no longer available, at the request of the copyright holder. This was long before the reports of e-books suddenly disappearing from Kindles.

So, think twice about deleting that title from the TiVo unless you had made a backup of it somehow (and obviously not via MRV), and considering the #1 reason TiVo units die is because the hard drive fails, you may want to consider it anyway.

[ZeoTiVo]

While it has never happened to me, a few have reported that Amazon had suddenly made previously re-downloadable videos no longer available, at the request of the copyright holder. This was long before the reports of e-books suddenly disappearing from Kindles.

This - I doubt TiVo can even reach out and delete anything anyhow at least not without sending an OS update along with it, etc..

So I doubt things will delete off your TiVo unless it was part of your agreed upon terms (24 hour viewing window)
However you may find that things you bought are no longer there for download. even making a backup copy to a disc only gets it back on your PC and not the TiVo.

This is the dawn of video digital downlaod and in my opinion the only one that has it right so far is Netflix with subscription based streaming. Too bad the content owners do not make more stuff available via streaming.