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In an ongoing battle between owners of television program copyrights and the entrepreneurs who develop innovative technologies to widely distribute their work to viewers, on January 18 and 20, 2011 the Supreme Court of Japan heard two cases involving the "space shifting" of streamed television programs, or the transfer of programs to remote receivers around the world for recording and viewing
