FCC Considers Mandating HDTV Copy Protection

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday October 17, 2003 @12:04AM from the pay-to-play dept.

HeavenlyWhistler writes "The Washington Post reports that the FCC will make a ruling this month on whether or not to mandate that all HDTV receivers implement copy protection when a 'broadcast flag' is detected in the received television signal. Movie and TV studios are pushing for this in an attempt to limit consumers' home-recording rights. An October 8 article states that CBS, under orders from Viacom CEO Mel Karmazin, has threatened to stop all HDTV broadcasts unless the broadcast flag is approved. While the comment period on the proposal (Docket 02-230) is over, the FCC web site will still let you submit comments. The EFF also discusses this issue."

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Good by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-17 00:06 · Score: -1, Troll

Sounds good to me. The only people who have a problem with this are people who steal, which is most likely people who are unemployed, which is most likely Linux users (i.e. YOU)
Re:Recurse this bitch by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-17 00:59 · Score: -1, Troll

And by "that thing between your knees" I mean... well that one's pretty self-explanatory.

Air? Trousers? Horse?
Re:So...wait.... by cens0r · 2003-10-17 03:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Read the fucking article. It won't affect you if you are recording things via a VCR or TiVo through the analog inputs. This only concerns making hi-def copies.

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