[Vision2020] New spamming method?

[Scott Dredge]

FWIW, I'd recommend not buying from Slingbox.  I had one that worked pretty well until last April and then the control to my TiVo (or any other tuner) became inoperable.  I looked on the Sling Community sites and it was a rampant problem.  The solution was to send back the unit if under warranty or buy a new one.  Instead I bought a Sony TV Anywhere.  It's much better and it even ports video over to my Playstation Portable.

Also, I'm not a big fan of Dish or non-TiVo DVRs.  Directv and TiVo are working together on HD DVR and when available that's when I'll switch full force over to HD.  Until then I'll limp along with my tube TVs and the one 15.6 inch HD TV (smallest I could find at Costco) that I bought just to test out the HD waters.

DIRECTV and TiVo to Launch New HD DIRECTV DVR with TiVo Service:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4900010

As for the spamming...it makes sense to me.  TiVo should charge advertisers a million dollars for downloading ads into the DVR  'playlist'.

-Scott

From: deco at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:48:01 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] New spamming method?










Interesting.  What's next? Interweaving messages in 
regular broadcasts over the regular cable/satellite programming?
 
Dish Network and Direct TV distributors leave bout 100 taped 
messages on my telephone per month, some of them quite deceptive.
 
Perhaps with a new administration, and after some very 
pressing problems are attacked, some attention could be focused 
on eliminating and/or rigorously controlling spam of various types.  I 
have written to our two senators about this and related internet security 
problems several times.  Each time I get the same form letter back which 
says they are working on the problem.  I've seen no real evidence of 
that, however.
 
W.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Sam 
  Scripter 
  To: vision2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:56 
  PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] New spamming 
  method?
  
NEW SPAMMING METHOD 
  [NOT ON THE INTERNET]?

I experienced today, what seems to be a method 
  of spamming of
a new and different kind. I've never heard about this 
  technique 
before. I'm wondering if any of you have, and whether you can 
  
shed any light on it?

I'm a subscriber to Dish Network.  I 
  have a Dish Network receiver
with a DVR. Today I found a new recording that 
  I did not schedule 
and that I did not initiate. E.g., It appeared there 
  from action other 
than mine.

The recording is only 4 minutes 
  long.  It's title is this:

   "Slingbox-Watch your 
  TV/DVR anywhere in the world"

What's next in this technological 
  world?  Now unsolicited
recordings proposing purchase of products or 
  services can
be left on one's receiver with DVR without one knowing 
  it
in advance!

Technically, Dish Network may argue that I agreed to 
  it by agreeing
to  receive email announcements from them.  I 
  assumed that would be
via the internet, not by the company placing 
  recordings on my VCR.

This is aggressive entrepreneurship beyond good 
  taste.  

Sam Scripter

  
  

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