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Justice Dept. Sides With Cablevision in Network DVR Dispute

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 1, 2009 - 12:05pm.
Washington - The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on the side of Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) in a legal dispute between the cable TV provider and the Hollywood TV networks and movie studios, over its planned "remote storage" digital video recorder that would store recorded programs on the company's servers rather than a consumer set-top box, Dow Jones Newswires reported. U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling that said the technology does not violate federal copyright laws.
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