Microsoft Sues Tivo to Help Out AT&T
Part of TiVo’s survival strategy, with miserable subscriber numbers, is to make everybody pay for DVR patents—winning Echostar was just the beginning. Microsoft, whose Mediaroom software powers AT&T’s U-Verse, said eff that, and just sued Tivo. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-is-slowly-dying-5412735 TiVo sued AT&T, alleging that its U-Verse IPTV service violates three of their DVR patents. Since it’s Microsoft’s…
