Losing Control of Your TV

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 4, 2004 @08:21AM from the no-surpise-there dept.

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."

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If they want control..... by gillrock · 2004-03-04 08:23 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:What about low-quality copies? by SoupGuru · 2004-03-04 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Low quality? You mean there's something better than VHS out there?

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Something about this confuses me by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

High quality? TV broadcasts? This does not compute.
It's the show by AtariAmarok · 2004-03-04 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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)

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Re:What about low-quality copies? by pilgrim23 · 2004-03-04 08:25 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Dunno about your TV by jefdiesel · 2004-03-04 08:26 · Score: 5, Funny

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!

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Re:Time to drag out this old chestnut, It might ap by AtariAmarok · 2004-03-04 08:28 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:Get rid of it by ChrisN79 · 2004-03-04 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Obligatory link to Onion article about guy who doesn't own television:

http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/doesnt_own_telev ision.html
Re:What about low-quality copies? by sik0fewl · 2004-03-04 09:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Low quality? You mean there's something better than VHS out there?

Where have you been? Of course there's something better. It's called Betamax.

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