one of my friends just told me that he saw on techlive this morning that dvd burners were being banned in the US! according to him some counterpart to the DMCA pulled something really obscure out of their ass to do this. also, he said that TiVo and all that similar stuff was going to be discontinued until they found a different way to store their recordings (apparently you can get a tivo hd to run on a computer pretty easily).

Of course, none of this makes sense, and won't last long if it's true. Can anyone confirm this?