Do any Applian products violate the DMCA?
Short answer: No. (The DMCA stands for “Digital Millennium Copyright Act”, which are the guidelines for what you can and cannot copy legally, and how recording products are allowed to work.) Our stream recording technologies work by locating unencrypted media, and downloading that media as it is transmitted, in order to enable the user to view the content at a later time and/or on another device. We don’t break any encryption, which is at the heart of the DMCA. (Some of our stream-capturing software may not work with future protocols as the media owners come up with more sophisticated encryption technologies.) Some customers have reported the capabilities to strip out advertisements from certain TV sites, download full length shows in preview mode and other unintended effects. These capabilities weren’t designed into the software, rather they are a side-effect of how the various media servers are architected. The intent of our products isn’t to enable ad stripping or avoid paying for c
