[LINK] TiVo cops price gouge flak

[Tom Worthington]

At 09:40 PM 24/03/2009, David Boxall wrote:
>Apparently, TiVos sold in Australia have networking hardware, but it's
>disabled. ... Where are the hackers when we need them? ...

Those hackers you need are on the second floor of the ANU Computer 
Science Building, North Road, Canberra. Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell and 
Bob "The Builder" Edwards, hacked the TiVo to get it to work in 
Australia and added an Ethernet interface, before TiVo did: 
<http://www.samba.org/%7Etridge/tivo-ethernet/>. They are running an 
open source software course starting 14 April 2009 
<http://cs.anu.edu.au/students/comp8440>. Perhaps they will be 
teaching a little TiVo hacking? ;-)

Please note that this is hacking in the sense of enthusiastic 
software development, not acting unlawfully.

ps: I have one of the newer Australian TiVos. I can use my 3G 
wireless link to download TiVo's offering of movie of the week (takes 
a few hours), but these are of old, dull movies. Being able to get 
some interesting content would boost TiVo in Australia. As an 
example, it would be good to be able to watch community TV, 
downloaded from the Internet.



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