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Who Controls Your Television?
Nurgled writes "The EFF, reportedly the only consumer rights organization to be granted membership of the Digital Video Broadcasting consortium, reports that TV and movie industry representatives have been pushing for DRM in the DVB technologies. This in itself is not entirely unexpected, but these talks have been going on in closed meetings. The EFF itself has been blocked from reporting on this until now as a condition of being allowed to attend. The proposed technologies allow rights-holders and broadcasters to severely hamper your ability to make use of broadcast television content, including the ability to retroactively blacklist any devices that consumers may already own that act in ways undesirable to the rights-holder or broadcaster. The EFF concludes that public interest and consumer rights advocates must fight back."
artisan chapbook makers, live children puppet-shows, and, of course, Linux.
Seriously, if this crap goes down, I'm going back to reading Victorian novels -- and maybe watching the occasional episode of Entourage at a friends' house.
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
Well, some mysterious guy keeps telling me that he controls both the horizontal and the vertical.
I had completely forgotten how great Max Headroom was... Netflix, here I come...
Argh! Not released yet! curse you, media gatekeepers of the modern age: here all I want to do is legally watch a program which was once given away for free on TV, and you frustrate me yet again...
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My wife. Duh.
My wife, of course..
I saw this coming about that time, must have been almost two years ago now.
It was actually six and a half years ago. You must have been watching reruns.
Is MCDonalds made a TurdBurger and nobody bought it, they'd soon cut it from the menu.
Oh, come on, man, the Arch Deluxe wasn't that bad.
YOUR TELEVISION CONTROLS YOU!
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