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New Yorkers Get a Taste of Digital Restrictions

Posted by michael on from the imagine-a-chip-stomping-on-a-human-face-forever dept.

InfoMinister writes "From SiliconValley.com, another peek into the future of Digital Rights Manglement. A software conflict at the set-top invoked copy restrictions on all unscrambled digital TV programming delivered to Cablevision's 3 million subscribers in metropolitan New York."

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  1. An explanation finally. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    "He says rules are designed to reflect home use -- while addressing piracy fears that prevent Hollywood from releasing more high-quality content."

    You see! I knew there was a reason Hollywood wasn't releasing high-quality content.

  2. High quality content by Jerky+McNaughty · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    He says rules are designed to reflect home use -- while addressing piracy fears that prevent Hollywood from releasing more high-quality content.

    High quality content... Not a whole lot of that seems to come out of Hollywood any more. Depending on how you interpret that quote, it could mean that Hollywood has generated all kinds of great, high quality stuff, but they just aren't releasing it because they're afraid of piracy. If that's true, then why generate the content in the first place? :-)

  3. They shall never take our remaining freedom away! by Smallest · · Score: 3, Funny
    As Detective Yeti says:

    " They Shall Never Take Our Remaining Freedom Away! Terrorists shall never deprive Americans of their essential liberties.

    The Bush Administration's strategy for ensuring this, apparently, is to leave us with none left to lose. "

    -c

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    I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.