Legal Question in Consumer Law in California

DVR recorders

Is it leagle to use my own DVR recorder to record Cox Cable programs?


Asked on 3/21/07, 12:11 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Carl Starrett Law Offices of Carl H. Starrett II

Re: DVR recorders

The legality of using video tapes to record programs from your cable or TV signal was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court decades ago. Using a DVR box to record programs is no different under the law. After all, why would Cox leave the box to you, charge you a fee and then prohibit you from recording program.

What you CANNOT do is then transfer the program and make copies. That is a whole different issue entirely.

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Answered on 3/27/07, 8:35 pm


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