The nation's second-largest cable company said Wednesday it will offer the cable set-top boxes with digital video recorders by the end of summer in some markets.
Call me paranoid, but if Time Warner begins taking over a significant portion of the PVR market, then wouldn't they have a means to implement whatever copy "protection" schemes they want? If they're manufacturing the hardware, they could very easily make it implement the whole "broadcast flag" idea, assuming they release a similar product for digital television. Just seems to me like this is an attempt to gain a foothold into a market so that they could further control content/copying later.
Blizzard has received about 4.5 million preorders for Warcraft III. I hate to rain on the parade, but even if every slashdot user boycotted, it wouldn't make a damn bit of a difference. The game has already sold 4-5 times more copies than most ever do, and it's not even in stores yet. So good luck with that boycott thing, I'll be playing it when it comes out.
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Call me paranoid, but if Time Warner begins taking over a significant portion of the PVR market, then wouldn't they have a means to implement whatever copy "protection" schemes they want? If they're manufacturing the hardware, they could very easily make it implement the whole "broadcast flag" idea, assuming they release a similar product for digital television. Just seems to me like this is an attempt to gain a foothold into a market so that they could further control content/copying later.
Blizzard has received about 4.5 million preorders for Warcraft III. I hate to rain on the parade, but even if every slashdot user boycotted, it wouldn't make a damn bit of a difference. The game has already sold 4-5 times more copies than most ever do, and it's not even in stores yet. So good luck with that boycott thing, I'll be playing it when it comes out.