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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."

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  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 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.

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

    samzenpus changes his name to dupesTacosPosts here

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  4. 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...

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

    it's a re-run.

    A pirated rerun at that.

  7. 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.