one of the commenters: "the question seems to lead to the idea that traveling faster than the speed of light == traveling backwards in time"
It's just a point of language, but that's silly. Seeing a video of France is very different from traveling to France, so one would imagine that seeing the past would not be described as "traveling" backwards in time.
edit: although, you may think about going faster than the speed of light as traveling backwards in time because of the "effects" of time dilation when your speed is > c
Faster than light travel isn't classical time travel, until you turn around. If you only travel away from Earth FTL, then that doesn't automatically produce nasty paradoxes. However, if instead of sticking around to see all the light pass you by, you just turn around and head back to Earth, again FTL, then you can arrive before you left, and cause all sorts of trouble.
It's just a point of language, but that's silly. Seeing a video of France is very different from traveling to France, so one would imagine that seeing the past would not be described as "traveling" backwards in time.
edit: although, you may think about going faster than the speed of light as traveling backwards in time because of the "effects" of time dilation when your speed is > c