I'd argue that TiVo is dying because the internet provides more options than it did in the first decade of this century. Hulu and broadcast television shows, not to mention YouTube Netflix provide far more "user friendly" options that can be watched in more places on more devices. I built a myth box but we never use it. We don't watch enough television to bother with it. When we miss something, we watch it online. The few exceptions to this are filled in by renting Netflix DVDs.

Yes a lot of people go ahead and pay for the cable company DVR, but most I know complain that they suck. When they see us watch what want online (1 day after it airs, usually) when and where we want, on whatever device, they generally do the same after that. I only know a few people actually still using true DVRs.

We're probably still an exception to the rule, but the numbers of people doing it this way are growing.

Um... well, if you lie about being the copyright holder (or their agent) you've committed a criminal act (perjury).

People who lie under oath in court, even when their lies result in innocent people being punished, rarely face any sanction at all. If perjury in front of a room full of people is unlikely to result in punishment what is the risk to someone doing so in writing? (Especially if they are a great distance from the recipient.)

All true. But a contractor knows that from the day he/she signs up.. his paycheck could end the next week.

I've been seeing something similar happen to the US Army. They have converted many jobs from military to civilian in the belief that they don't have to increase the size of the army, just get more people out from behind desks and into the field. More trigger pullers and less support folks. So now they have to drag overpaid contractors along to established FOBs to handle the higher level support functions.

The only solution i can think of is hiring these engineers and so on into permanent positions on the condition that they will have to move as the work moves.

They haven't yet banned FCE Ultra GX, which facilitates piracy of proprietary commercial NES games.

I just realized that that's the reason focus-follows-mouse never made sense for me: I'm left-handed. There's no way I can select text and have my hand on the mouse at the same time.