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Judge Says Sonicblue Doesn't Have to Monitor
MoD writes "From CNet: District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper on Friday overturned a late April ruling that required the maker of ReplayTV set-top box technology to write and install software to monitor what its customers were watching."
YAH!
the last place I need more spyware is on my television. No one needs to know how many episodes of Star Trek I've been watching.
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Consumers have rights? I didn't know that. Usually everything we buy has fine print that tends to negate any rights we had prior to purchasing the product.
-Tolerate my intolerance
"Ok that's it. We've had enough with the public. Who do they think they are? Well, we have a plan.
All network TV will now be encrypted in a similar fashion to satellite TV. In order to be issued a decryption smartcard, customers will be forced to sit through 120 hours of non-stop commercials followed by back-to-back reruns of My Two Dads and Hart to Hart."
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Come in, twenty-seventy-seventy, your time is up.
This is a sad day for us lying bastards. I was just beginning to relish the idea of hacking the reporting mechanism. Then I'd be able to influence network programming without even viewing the shows. This way I could dictate the mindless drivel without having to watch any of it - a double win! Create enough spurious reports and the system would have been useless. *evil grin*
Given one hour to live, the student replied: "I'd spend it with professor FP who can make an hour seem like a lifetime."
Say YES to good precident!
George W.'s campaign slogan for 2004 has been leaked apparently.
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Would this be the begining of the end of "free" over the air tv? I personally know of only a couple of people who do not have cable/satellite, is OTATV a dinosaur anyway?
Good point--cable television is widespread and fairly affordable; and it offers high signal quality even if the content does suck.
I really hope the TV broadcasters don't take a cue from web advertising. I can imagine it now:
Joe SixPack hits "power" button on remote to turn off his TV, only to get bombarded with six pop-up advertisements. He hits the power button to get rid of the pop-ups, and gets two more for every one he "turns off." The whole TV display goes blue and dumps a whole bunch of technical gibbersh, then goes black as a wisp of smoke escapes from the back of the set.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.