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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."

3 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Harder to steal content by The+Fanta+Menace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is nothing illegal about time shifting.

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  2. Re:Testing 1,2,3 by kingOFgEEEks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know.. parfait.

    everybody LOVE parfait!

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  3. Re:Testing 1,2,3 by handorf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't like butterscotch, but I do like vanilla. You don't see friggin holy wars over pudding, though, do you?

    YOU SWINE! HAVE AT YOU!

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