NBC Activates Broadcast Flag

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @11:57PM from the honest-mistake dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "NBC activated the 'broadcast flag' on a number of shows this week, ranging from American Gladiator to Medium, which prevented compliant programs like Windows Media Center from recording them. The matter is being 'looked into,' but that doesn't tell us whether it was an accident or a ploy to see how outraged viewers would be at being stripped of the time-shifting rights they've enjoyed ever since Sony v. Universal. Just in case it's the latter, it wouldn't hurt to let them know what you think."

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Re:The epitome of unbiased summaries by ShieldW0lf · 2008-05-15 00:04 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow... and with all those free features backported to WinXP, users who can't afford to upgrade can enjoy the same technology as everyone else. Those nice people at Microsoft.

"We're sorry. This news broadcast was not approved, the recording cannot be played. Tech support from the NSA will be along shortly to assist you with your problem."

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