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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. Re:freaking MPAA by theJML · · Score: 0, Troll

    And if I make a random number generator create random bit patterns it'll eventually create an MP3 file. Or Windows (No wonder Vista is taking so long), or any other copyrighted file.

    Which I'm sure they'll go ahead and sue me for pointing out that they're copyrighting a bunch of random bit patterns that anyone can duplicate given enough time.

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    -=JML=-