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TiVo said it will enforce its terms of service and reserves the right to pull the plug on users who violate these. But the company also acknowledged that, in practice at least, its treatment of the thriving hacker community is hands-off. Another TiVo representative who asked not to be named said TiVo had not gotten any blowback from content companies and that as long as the hacking didn't negatively impact TiVo's business, the company didn't plan to spend time addressing it.

The company has been working to beef up new service offerings to set its device and service apart from other digital video recording products. TiVo has a downloadable content service in the works with partner Netflix as well as a new interactive advertising tool. As far as the hackers are concerned, TiVo's vision of the future--including its recently announced partnership with Netflix to provide movies on demand --just looks like yesterday's hack.

TiVo has a history of going against the tide, and that attitude has allowed it to outlive numerous predictions of its demise by critics who said it offered a feature easily copied by Microsoft and cable operators. While the company has survived , competitive pressures are only increasing as Microsoft continues to push PC-home entertainment convergence , and competition by other DVR providers press TiVo to compete on features.

But TiVo faces risks in developing new features, most importantly in angering large content companies, many of which have an investment in the company or are significant partners. New features such as TiVoToGo, which allows subscribers to transfer shows on a recorder to a home computer, have already drawn the ire of some. That dynamic puts the hackers in the peculiar position of both fortifying TiVo customer loyalty in the way that Cuban described, and raising expectations for features that could exacerbate TiVo's existing tensions with Hollywood and other content providers.

Concern over copyright violations has already had a chilling effect on music recording devices that show even the potential for abuse. XM Radio, for example, pulled a recording device off the market amid concerns it could turn satellite radio streams into sources of illegally copied and shared music.

Hackers have already restored a similar device to the market. TiVo hacks are not exactly new --hackers have been extending TiVo practically since the product was first introduced.

But recent months have brought a wealth of interest and activity to the phenomenon. Enthusiasts congregate on TiVo hacking message boards. Have any TiVo hacks of your own? Think I'm risking life, limb, and a lifetime of Dossa and Joe reruns messing around with this stuff? TalkBack to me below. Developers are in short supply.

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By signing up, you agree to receive the selected newsletter s which you may unsubscribe from at any time. You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. What are you looking for? Software-only hacks rule! Let me be one of the first today to say that software-only hacks rule! There are a lot more people that can use that type of hack, then there are that would open the box and do stuff in order to get BASH, or what have you, to work.

There goes the system. How about a hack for the Series 2? Re:How about a hack for the Series 2? I beleive the series 2 were software hacked last year via the 3 card monty method. There are downloadable ISOs to prep the drives. It does stop updates from working though. Even hacks the Directivo.

How about stepping into ? The two-card-monte method as applied to the Tivo Series 2 as long ago as February, OK, dumb question Score: 4 , Insightful. What would you be able to do with a TiVo hacked in this way that you can't do now?

Hook it up to a different hard drive and store more shows? Re:OK, dumb question Score: 5 , Funny. Run a web server on it for remote programming, extract digital video from it, and most important, IRC from it. Re:OK, dumb question Score: 3 , Funny. Re:OK, dumb question Score: 1.

That is all I will say; there is a quite a bit that can be done. Steal service I guess if you are in to that and stuff ;. Re:OK, dumb question Score: 2. Disk space can be added to TiVos without shell access. Many people have already upgraded their HD TiVos' hard drives, while only a handfull have shell access to them. A little known fact, it seems, is that you don't even need a PC to add a second hard drive -- despite what searching the web seems to suggest.

While poking around in the TiVo's startup scripts, I found that the command to initialize a new hard drive if present is already there along with a comment of "No, we didn't remove this No PC necessary! Those commands cause it to add a blessed drive to MFS, not to bless a blank drive. You still need to set up the basic partition table in a PC. I figured it would take care of that too. I guess that's why I'm just executing the hacks instead of creating them Opening Narration Score: 5 , Funny.

In , a crack hacker unit will be sent to prison by a civilian court, for crimes they just barely understood themselves. These hackers promptly escaped from the maximum security MPAA holding room to their mothers' basements. Today, still wanted by Jack Valenti, they survive as coders of fortune. If you have an encrypted video stream, nobody else will touch it, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the HD TeAm!

Re:Opening Narration Score: 5 , Funny. Re:Opening Narration Score: 1 , Insightful. Their crime would be "Interfering with a megacorp's right to profit. Re:Opening Narration Score: 1. Hannibal: "I love it when a progrma comes together. Re:Opening Narration Score: 2. Can i have my balls back? I just laughed 'em off ;. I have a question Why are they waiting for the EFF to get more donations in order to show the code to the world?

Please go easy on me. Re:I have a question You'd be just as wise to put your money down on a "pre-release" copy of Duke Nuke'em Forever without doing more homework. Seriously, they're not the ones getting the moolah, the EFF is. Therefore they obviously want the EFF to do well. Move to your theory Which means in the end the EFF probably suffers more damage than good.

Unless this were perpetrated by people who -want- to hurt the EFF or the TiVo community, there is just no reason for them to b. Score: 3 , Informative. There was a contest: The contest organizers would collect a bounty from folks. If some group met the challenge bash shell in Tivo before the deadline, then they would get the collected money.

Reading between the lines Score: 5 , Funny. Oh, just freaking great Score: 1 , Interesting. Now the EFF is going to be linked to the terrorists and get a visit from Ashcroft and the gang.

The hack I'd like to see Score: 5 , Funny. Skipping commercials is nice, but I'd like a hack to allow a TiVo to record and show good programs. I tried the control marked 'brightness', but it didn't help at all. Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 1 , Funny. Just unplug it. We'll let you know when Ken is back on Jeopardy so you can plug it back in for 30 minutes a day. Problem solved.

Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 1. Is Jeopardy one of those islands that people get kicked off of each week? Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 2. Jeopardy is the one where they continually try to kick one guy off, but he stays there for like 38 episodes, and even past the end of the season.

Ahhh, so this is a show about politics? Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 1 , Interesting. TiVo is cool as hell, but it's not a miracle worker. First, the good programs have to be broadcast. Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 3 , Informative. Never failed me yet! I have more stuff that I watch in the "Suggestions" box than programs I picked myself. Re:The hack I'd like to see Score: 2 , Informative. First Gallagher [gallaghersmash. Did you Ever notice how people claim they want intellectual shows, while in reality braindead shows Babewatch, soaps, shoot-em-ups do great?

Calvin still watching TV says "So I lied. Sue me. Score: 1 , Redundant. I bet they hit that mark easily by tomorrow. What's bash? Score: 1 , Funny. And why is there no mention of the preferred bat or sledgehammer to do so? This is not a good thing Score: 2 , Insightful.

We don't need people associating the EFF with blackmail. I wish they wouldn't do this. Re:This is not blackmail Score: 1. They will release the code if people donate to the EFF- that is, they will not release the code unless money has been given to an organization which is able to defend them in court when Tivo does what Tivo will.

Re:This is not a good thing Score: 3 , Informative. I agree with the question - how is this blackmail? Re:you had a contract Score: 1. There, wasn't that easy? All you have to do is look at the actual situation and then just think for a second. They are asking for donations to a non-profit organization!

How is offering to release something that you created in exchange for donations, blackmail? Awww great. Hackers who support organazations who disaprove of Orwellian futures? They MUST be terrorists! Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's weird that I can make a meaning out of that headline :p. Donate or we'll behead Jack Valenti Score: 2.