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Cable, TV Makers Agree on Digital Standard
shylock0 writes "Reuters has this article about the digital cable standard agreed upon today. Amazingly enough, it places little or no copyright restrictions on content -- and it even includes specification for 1394/FireWire output to PVRs. I think this is a victory for fair use. Let's hope the FCC approves."
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TV digitizes you!
YOU FAIL IT!
The CSLIB Menace never fails it!
To what are you referring with the Cher/censor comment?
But another major question -- the extent to which consumers should be able to record shows for their personal use -- remains unresolved.
The long quote version (from imdb):
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?"
Dr. Raymond Stantz: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness--
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes--
Dr. Peter Venkman: Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
FP fails you!