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Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-i-like-mine-so-much dept.

mjdroner writes "ZD-Net has the latest on a sweeping telecom bill in the Senate. The bill provides no support for net neutrality. The bill does, however, include a provision to authorize the FCC to outlaw digital receivers that record broadcasts. The article states that those receivers would be replaced with devices that treat anything with an audio broadcast flag as copy-protected."

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  1. New equipment for free? by slashname3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So the FCC is going to replace my mythtv box with a new system? Are they planning to do this just after they confiscate all the firearms from the public?