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Losing Control of Your TV
sp00 writes "The MPAA is now trying to prevent high quality copies made from TV broadcasts. The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new "broadcast flag" technology enables all manner of other restrictions. In the future, the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set."
Then I want control over the price....
If I don't own the TV set outright, I shouldn't have to pay $3000 for a plasma TV. I think I should only have to pay $3.
"...the shortest distance between two points may be straight line, but it is by no means the most interesting."
how about an evil flag, so when the latest fox reality show is on, my signal quality is automagically reduced to nil.
Who'da thunk the MPAA would be the ones to institute the ominous Evil Bit?
Low quality? You mean there's something better than VHS out there?
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
High quality? TV broadcasts? This does not compute.
Come to think of it, it is impossible to make a "high quality" anything if the TV show concerned is "Dharma and Greg". I think the entire UPN network will be exempt from these restrictions too. (I'd mention the ABC network, but I didn't think it was around anymore)
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I don't know about you but I use a "Remote Control" to control my TV I don't call someone over to do it for me
Would be nice every now and then I guess when I don't have the "Remote Control" on hand or it's lost.
There will be a hack to fix this problem if/when it comes around.
Indeed. Seems to me that if this only applies to High Quality TV then, given the current status of the art, there is nothing to block. I stopped watching TV over a decade ago. Only High Quality on TV any more is the drug ads.
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Dunno about your tv.. but mine has all kinds of cool moving pictures. They dance, and laugh, and shoot each other, and on Cop Rock, they even SING!
I hate spyware and spies
It's Outer Limits for real this time!
First they came for the ooffshore pirate DVD factories,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't an offshore DVD pirate.
Then they came for the Kazaa users,
and I didn't speak up,
because I didn't use Kazaa.
Then they came for the VHS copiers,
and I didn't speak up,
because I still used Betemax.
Then they came for me,
and I turned off the set.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In Soviet Russia, your television set will control the Motion Picture Association of America!
:)
How can we get that technology over here??
# fuser -v
#
Longhorn has been released? What, did I miss the years 2004 and 2005? I thought Longhorn was slated for 2006 release? Or are you talking about some beta or developers version?
Who is actually recording television anymore? With what they consider quality television, I'm surprized more people aren't doing more interesting things like taking a Craftsman cordless drill to the soles of their feet or jamming needles in their armpits.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
Too bad they never went after the douchebags who post irrelevant quotes.
The revolution will be televised...
Please check with the MPAA to acquire a license to view the revolution.
Creating a market for tv's imported from countries that don't have the restrictions and a black market for chipping sets.
Right. Next step: region-encoded AV input-output standards compliance for TVs and displays.
Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a Television
It's like "What book? Never heard of it. Don't own one. Haven't since May 1978. You really should get rid of your books too"
Obligatory link to Onion article about guy who doesn't own television:
v ision.html
http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/doesnt_own_tele
You'll be able to buy a simple device whose sole purpose is to NULL that flag in the input stream.
It'll probably retail for $9.99 on the web.
That's until a college student figures out that all it takes to disable the DRM feature is holding the SHIFT key on your remote.
I can't wait for 'the flag'...
there's no place like ~
[tin foil hat]
Yeah and next they're going to put in a battery backup so that even when you unplug it just keeps playing forever.
And then they'll make them so that it contains nano-bots that repair everything if you try to physically break the hardware.
[/tin foil hat]
The Anti-Blog
Have to disagree about Stargate. That show is completely unrealistic.
There was one episode where they had one ion gun, but they needed many more. How stupid is that? They have MacGyver. He can make ion guns by the thousands with a banana peel and some rubber bands, for crying out loud!
Where have you been? Of course there's something better. It's called Betamax.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
I lost control of my TV long ago.
I have a teenage daughter.
-- Will program for bandwidth
I dont think it works. I watched Hannibal thru it and it was still disturbing.
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Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Consumers: What happen?
Slash-Dot: Somebody set up us the Broadcast Flag.
Slash-Dot: We get SUED.
Consumers: What!
Slash-Dot: Main screen turn on.
Consumers: It's You!!
MPAA: How are you gentlemen!!
MPAA: All your TV are belong to us.
MPAA: Your rights are on the way to destruction.
Consumers: What you say!!
MPAA: Your rights have no chance to survive make your time.
MPAA: HA HA HA HA!
MPAA: Take off every "zig."
Consumers: You know what you doing.
MPAA: Move "zig."
Consumers: For great justice.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Well gee, I thought I went to that restaurant because I was hungry.
I don't see how putting food in my mouth or giving my attention to a movie is "asocial mental masturbation." In fact I feel a bit insulted by you saying that.
and what about high-quality recordings of low-quality shows?
(MPAA)
It's mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine! And you can't have any! Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
(/MPAA)
Buncha babies.
And if you remove the battery backup, it will start singing "Daisy, Daisy..."
You know you've been surfing /. too long when you see the word "losing" and think it's a typo.
---- Just another spud server.
You're in the finance business, but you don't know how to spell "lien"?
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