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pinna <pinna@autistici.org>
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Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:04:00 +0200
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[hackmeeting] EFF Begins Digital Television Liberation Project
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EFF Begins Digital Television Liberation Project
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/03/2113238&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=129&tid=137&tid=188&tid=99
One year from today, on July 1, 2005, an FCC regulation known as the
Broadcast Flag will lock up your digital television signals. But EFF's
"DTV Liberation Project" aims to help the public keep over-the-air
programming free. The Broadcast Flag, which places copy controls on
DTV signals, attempts to stop people from making digitally-perfect
copies of television shows and redistributing them. It also stops
people from making perfectly legitimate personal copies of broadcasts.
More disturbing, the Broadcast Flag will outlaw the import and
manufacture of a whole host of personal video recorders (PVRs),
TiVo-like devices that send DTV signals into a computer for backup,
editing and playback. After the Broadcast Flag regulations go into
effect, all PVR technologies must be Flag-compliant and 'robust'
against user modification - and that means, once again, that the
entertainment industry is trying to tell you what you can do with your
own machines.
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