Everyone deserves to be paid for what they produce
Even so, it's not possible to keep this technology in the bottle. Any more than you could prohibit tape-recorders and VCRs.
If there was a way to police the black marketeering and general loss of revenue caused by this tech, while permitting the individual to record a show, then everyone would be for that solution.
Interesting parallel here between digital recording and drug companies researching new drugs and wanting to be paid for it, while others in Brazil and elsewhere, making unauthorized copies and distributing them for almost free.