Sometimes an idea so shockingly bad comes along that you just stop whatever you are doing, sit up, and say “that is so fucking stupid” and this is one of those moments:

Hey, TiVo: since 1984’s Betamax decision, Americans have had the right to record TV shows even if the rightsholder doesn’t like the idea. That’s straight from the Supreme Court’s mouth. I don’t know what kind of special privilege the enteraintment industry has offered you in exchange for this spectacular display of wanton shark-jumping, but it wasn’t enough. I sold my TiVo when I left California. You can be goddamned sure I won’t be buying another one. Ever.

If you look carefully at that image you can see that Tivo now allows any show to decide whether Tivo owners can even record or for how long they are allowed to watch it.

I guess we now know how Tivo plans to survive its TV-Advertising-destroying nature.

As the BoingBoing article points out, there are plenty of Tivo competitors out there and they all just got a huge leg up.