{"id":50523,"date":"2012-05-22T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50523"},"modified":"2012-05-22T22:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:56:37","slug":"dstv-recording-non-pvr-not-allowed-multichoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/50523-dstv-recording-non-pvr-not-allowed-multichoice.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv recording (non-PVR) not allowed: MultiChoice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to questions on whether MultiChoice<\/a> allows the home recording of its broadcasts, the pay -TV operator said that subscribers are only allowed to use its PVR facility.<\/p>\n

“In line with recent agreements with our content suppliers, the copying of our content is not permitted except on MultiChoice PVR<\/acronym>s,” said the satellite broadcaster. “Copy protection measures will be implemented in line with these agreements.”<\/p>\n

Asked about the legality of home TV recording,\u00a0Tobias Sch\u00f6nwetter<\/a>, copyright expert and senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers<\/a>, said that television broadcasts in South Africa may be recorded and stored on any medium, so long as it is for private use.<\/p>\n

Sch\u00f6nwetter explained that they call such legally permitted recording of broadcasts on a storage medium for viewing at a later, more convenient time, \u201ctime-shifting\u201d.<\/p>\n

While Sch\u00f6nwetter is of the opinion that time-shifting is allowed under South African law, he points out that broadcasts may contain sound recordings or movies which do not allow copying for private use.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn South Africa, TV broadcasts are copyright protected and therefore underlie many restrictions in as far as copying – and recording is one form of copying – is concerned,\u201d Sch\u00f6nwetter said.<\/p>\n

\"Tobias<\/a>

Tobias Sch\u00f6nwetter<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cBut my view is that if sound recordings or movies are contained in a broadcast, time-shifting remains legal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sch\u00f6nwtter said this applies to both free-to-air channels such as SABC<\/a>, e.tv<\/a>, and community TV stations, as well as pay-TV broadcasts such as DStv<\/a> and Top TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recordings may be stored on any medium, Sch\u00f6nwtter said, whether cassettes, DVDs, hard drives, USB sticks, or anything else.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne word of caution, however,\u201d Sch\u00f6nwetter added. \u201cThis does not mean that users can develop work-arounds for their PVRs in order to store their movies [or other content] on a different medium.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Making it legal for you to copy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Online piracy: Crime and punishment in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ripping MP3s from CD: Legal conflict<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Music piracy, street violence, and the Internet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Photo of Tobias Sch\u00f6nwetter by Paul Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A copyright expert explains whether services such as DStv\u2019s PVR are the only legal way to record broadcasts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2340,11825,35,7041,3174,11827,3092],"class_list":["post-50523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-copyright","tag-fair-dealing","tag-headline","tag-personal-video-recorder","tag-pvr","tag-tobias-schonwetter","tag-video-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50755,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523\/revisions\/50755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}