Reuters is reporting that the FCC has granted approval to Tivo for their scheme to allow people to share Tivo’d shows with their friends. The NFL opposed such a notion, since they can obviously charge relatively large fees for the showing of games which are normally not available in different markets.

Ironically, the FCC said in their statement:

“Each of these technologies has been exhaustively reviewed to ensure contention protection systems prevent the mass indiscriminate redistribution of digital television programming,”

I bet the maker’s of the DVD encryption standard said the same thing. After giving us these uncopyable bits, next they will be giving us non-wet water.