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You Want To Record What?

by Steve Gibson, Sep 05, 2000 2:41pm PDT
Related Topics – Wack News, FCC, MPAA

Ok this story is being sent in by way too many people not to post. The MPAA and a few others are working on getting a new standard pushed into VCRs and other recording devices (TiVo anyone?) that would prevent people from recording particular broadcasted shows. There is of course quite a bit of objection, the HRRC is leading the charge.

copyright holders want the FCC to require that circuitry be built into nearly every digital TV device - receivers, VCRs and set-top boxes - that will prevent recording programs carrying copy protection information set by the program's owner.
Damn it, and I just figured out how to program my VCR to record those 3am Skinemax flicks.




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