From July 2005 through the end of 2011, he was chairman and CEO of Rovi, the provider of content security and programming guides that was once called Macrovision.

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Rovi Corp, formerly Macrovision Solutions Corporation, provides a set of solutions that enable businesses to protect, enable and distribute their digital goods to consumers and allows consumers the ability to discover and manage digital media across multiple channels.

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Thanking Steve Jobs for his Thoughts on Music isn't exactly how we'd expected a letter to start by Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, the original DRM company whose fair use crippling technology dates back all the way to 1984 (no joke).

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