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Regulators Lose Piracy Battle

Posted by samzenpus on from the fair-game dept.

asok_g33k writes "The US broadcast regulators were told today by a court of appeal that it 'crossed the line' in trying to dictate how devices functioned. This was after the regulators tried to ban a device which allowed TV shows to be pirated. This comes after studies revealing that massive amounts of TV shows are beign illegaly downloaded from the internet and the regulators want a way to stop these shows being pirated and copied."

18 of 312 comments (clear)

  1. Dupe of a dupe by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    This article appeared yesterday.

    And the day before yesterday.

    Tomorrow, I intend to hold an opinion, so if you could post it then too, that'd be great.

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    1. Re:Dupe of a dupe by gargleblast · · Score: 2, Funny
      Dupe of a dupe

      Which would make this story ... tripe.

    2. Re:Dupe of a dupe by eric_brissette · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, since today was my first day back to work from vacation, I didn't see it the first two times.

      I can't bring myself to look at Slashdot unless I'm getting paid for it.

    3. Re:Dupe of a dupe by doyle.jack · · Score: 2, Funny

      It'll be posted again toomorrow, too. Do you have a point to make here?

  2. How many editrors are there? by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we expect each of them to repost this? It's important stuff though. We need to hear it again and again.

  3. This just in by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hammers are being massivly abused to kill people. They need to be equipped with a fingerprint sensor and a homing beacon and a rubber head so they can't be abused! END THE MADNESS NOW!

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  4. And in other news by castlec · · Score: 5, Funny

    samzenpus changes his name to dupesTacosPosts here

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  5. Slashdot needs a broadcast flag by cperciva · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe if /. had a broadcast flag, it would be able to recognize stories which had been broadcast and avoid copying them?

    Ok, a bit lame, but I'm having a hard time trying to come up with anything which wasn't posted the first two times...

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    1. Re:Slashdot needs a broadcast flag by ReallyNiceGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      This was posted last time, sorry...

  6. Rip Off by deutschemonte · · Score: 5, Funny

    I paid $5.00 to see 1,000 dupes before everyone else. It seems the only added value subscribers have now-a-days is to be the first ones to be disappointed by another dupe.

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  7. sad... by Lumpy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because we all know that many great TV shows are cancelled because of piracy.

    Tv show Piracy is killing the industry! do you all want to have to pay monthly for your TV content???

    remember someone in the UK watching an american TV show off a bittorrent is exactly like killing puppies!

    Dont support puppy killers!

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  8. I submitted this 10 times!!! by erroneus · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was only rejected 7 times though ;)

    Actually, the verbage in this reference is slanted the other way. The FCC wasn't requiring that hardware works a certain way, they were attempting to ban devices that could be used to pirate video. That's quite a spin wouldn't you say?

    And people sharing TV shows on the net is somehow piracy... I wonder if it would be okay with them as long as they left the commercials in?

  9. This is not a dupe.. by backslashdot · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's a re-run.

    A pirated rerun at that.

  10. This Article as no Copyright Bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So is being copied wrongly, over, and, over, again...

  11. Re:Pointless battle by Sentry21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it can be viewed, it will be copied, and then distributed.

    The mods obviously feel that way.

  12. Re:Dupe ! by PetWolverine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Duplicate, triplicate; dupe, tripe...what a bunch of tripe!

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  13. Re:The Editorial Board of Slashdot is Degenerating by Caltheos · · Score: 2, Funny

    We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked... have been sacked.

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  14. Re:Nice angle... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google:

    "piracy case" 14,800 pages

    "piracy case" -copyright 932 pages

    "piracy case" -copyright -music 9080 pages

    hmm, something odd about that last one.