The process took by a year, but it looks like common sense prevailed in Cablevision’s appeal of its network-DVR copyright infringement case. You might remember that Cablevision had planned to roll out “remote-storage” DVRs a couple years ago that would play programs off Cablevision servers instead of storing shows locally, but shelved the plan when the networks sued by the concept, claiming that separating substance storage from playback would essentially constitute rebroadcast and infringe on their copyrights. The networks won the first round, but it seems like the technical distinction amidst local and remote storage wasn’t ample to convince the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Cablevision was “broadcasting” anything — the court just lifted the injunction barring Cablevision from supplying remote DVRs to its customers. We’re still big fans of managing our own substance locally, but that is definitely a win for the consumer, as it’ll mean cheaper equipment costs and hopefully a larger selection of media available on demand — too poor we’re plus betting that the networks will try and appeal that one to the Supreme Court.