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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 584392" data-attributes="member: 2525">How is it intrusive to report the raw number of people who ranked your show with three stars on TIVO? It wouldn't be a report of any individual, just the entire user base at once.  Its the same thing as Morrus reporting the number of hits to his website every day - do you feel violated by site stats?[Edit] By the way, I just discovered Tivo is already doing this.  It is right there in your user agreement "Anonymous Viewing Information. We use Anonymous Viewing Information to develop reports and analyses about what programs, advertisements, and types of programming our subscribers (as a whole or in subgroups) watch or skip, or for other programming or advertising research. For example, we use Anonymous ViewingInformation to develop inferences that people who watch show X also watch show Y. "Ha, those sneaky devils! Tivo is already being developed into a Nielsen supplement or replacement I would guess![EDIT 2] Wow, I hit the mark pretty close! Neilsen is already running a test right now to try and pull data from Tivo units.  The experiment is running on only 10 Tivo units to begin, however "The software was downloaded to TiVo devices across the country but remains inactive..."See also:<a href="http://www.nielsenmedia.com/newsreleases/2000/Tivo.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nielsenmedia.com/newsreleases/2000/Tivo.htm</a></blockquote>