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[ NNSquad ] Re: re US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
The FCC has decided to just turn the Internet into the
Incumbent-net, and now it's trying to enact copyright policy.
Again. Why does the FCC get to do it this time, after the
drubbing they received on the broadcast flag? What, because this
administration is beholden to MPAA and the incumbents and so we
just have to deal?
Seth Johnson
[ There's more here than meets the eye. The MPAA, et al. know that
high quality leaked digital copies of films are impossible to
stop. After all, it takes only a *single* good copy that
jailbreaks from DRM to create the source for limitless other
copies. And in fact, the typical source for quality pirate
film copies is unrelated to the consumer distribution/DRM chain
at all -- the leaks typically occur from *within* the production
chain itself. So this is all a genuine case of Whac-A-Mole.
What's *really* going on is largely a frontal attack on
theater owners, and the newly authorized "first run" window
with disabled high-quality analog outputs is primarily
a means to enable these actions.
That's my opinion, anyway. I won't speculate (here) on why
the FCC is going along with this.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 18:16:38 -0700
Subject: [ NNSquad ] re US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
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> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:03:17 -0400
> From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
> Subject: [IP] re US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> Reply-To: dave@farber.net
> To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@gmail.com>
> > Date: May 7, 2010 9:00:49 PM EDT
> > To: dave@farber.net
> > Subject: Re: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> >
>
> > >>â??This action is an important victory for consumers who
> will now have
> > far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in
> their
> > homes,â?? Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive
> officer of the
> > MPAA, said today in a statement.<<
> >
> > And I see it as a slap-in-the-face and a middle finger to
> consumers as
> > it's de facto instant obsolescence for the multi-millions of
> dollars
> > worth of displays, switchers, sources, etc. presently being
> used for
> > High Definition viewing and not using HDMI (or without that
> > capability).
> > Two years ago I installed a $14,000 16x16 matrix component
> switcher at a
> > 'SportsBar"because it was the -only- method available to
> deliver HD at
> > the distances required (multiple displays 75-125 ft. from
> source) and
> > now that system will only deliver 480p, distribution of which
> could have
> > been accomplished for $2000.
> >
> > >>The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in
> 2008 for a
> > waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so that its
> members
> > could send movies over cable and satellite services using
> â??secure and
> > protected digital outputs,â?? according to the trade
> groupâ??s petition at
> > the agency.<<
> >
> > Trouble is, there is -lots- more content delivered by those
> services
> > than just Hollywood's movies and now the Set-Top-Box will
> only output
> > 480p on analog for that content as well.
> >
> > IMO, this is another indication that if you're a big money
> corporate
> > lobbyist, you can get the ear of the FCC. Stuff like this,
> along with
> > Hundt's admission that he tried to 'sabotage' Broadcast HD,
> tells me
> > what the FCC thinks about the "consumer".
> >
> > --Michael
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Dave Farber
> > To: ip
> > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:35 PM
> > Subject: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> >
> >
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> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
> >> Date: May 7, 2010 5:35:41 PM EDT
> >> To: List Infowarrior <infowarrior@attrition.org>
> >> Cc: Farber Dave <dave@farber.net>
> >> Subject: US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> >>
> >
> >> Film Studios Allowed by U.S. to Use Anti-Piracy Technology
> on TV
> >> Equipment
> >>
> >> By Todd Shields - May 07, 2010
> >>
> >>
> http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-07/film-studios-said-
> to-be-allowed-to-use-anti-piracy-technology-on-tv-sets.html
> >>
> >> The film industry can block outputs on home television
> equipment so
> >> studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers
> from
> >> making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said.
> >>
> >> Temporarily disabling the outputs will â??enable a new
> business modelâ??
> >> that wouldnâ??t develop in the absence of such anti-piracy
> protection,
> >> the Federal Communications Commission said today in an
> order.
> >>
> >> Home viewing of recently released movies over cable and
> satellite
> >> systems would provide revenue for studios such as Viacom
> Inc.â??s Pa
> >> ramount Pictures and Sony Corp.â??s film division, which
> have seen DVD
> >> sales drop as more people get films through Internet,
> mail-order and
> >> kiosk rental services. The advocacy group Public Knowledge
> is among
> >> opponents who say the plan interferes with viewer choice.
> >>
> >> The FCC order â??â??will allow the big firms for the first
> time to take
> >> control of a consumerâ??s TV set or set-top box, blocking
> viewing of a
> >> TV program or motion picture,â?? Gigi Sohn, president of Was
> >> hington-based Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
> >>
> >> The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in
> 2008 for a
> >> waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so that
> its members
> >> could send movies over cable and satellite services using
> â??secure and
> >> protected digital outputs,â?? according to the trade
> groupâ??s petition at
> >> the agency.
> >>
> >> â??This action is an important victory for consumers who
> will now have
> >> far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in
> their
> >> homes,â?? Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive
> officer of
> >> the MPAA, said today in a statement. â??It is a major step
> forward in
> >> the development of new business models by the motion picture
> industry
> >> to respond to growing consumer demand.â??
> >>
> >> The Washington-based MPAA represents Paramount Pictures,
> Sonyâ??s film
> >> unit, News Corp.â??s Twentieth Century Fox, General Electric
> Co.â??s NBC
> >> Universal, Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc.â??s Warner
> Bros.
> >> Pictures.
> >>
> >> To contact the reporter on this story: Todd Shields in
> Washington at
> >> tshields3@bloomberg.net
> > Archives
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