FCC Set-Top Box Rulemaking
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EFF spends a lot of time investigating the latest trends and developments in technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the most recent threats to your digital rights. This isn’t one of those stories. This is a story about a technology that’s even older than our organization, that’s barely...
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Months of aggressive lobbying by the MPAA and its allies at the Copyright Office gave them the result they desired
Update: a timeline of events based on the Copyright Office e-mails is here.
In the current debate over cable set-top box competition, content and cable industries worked...
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Let’s Send a Message to the FCC: Consumers, Not Hollywood, Should Drive the Pay TV Market
The FCC is about to make a decision about whether third-party companies can market their own alternatives to the set-top boxes provided by cable companies. Under the proposed rules, instead...
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It has always been about gaining control over technology and never about copyright law.
Major TV producers have finally said what they really want from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in exchange for breaking up the cable companies' monopoly over set-top boxes. As they continue to push fake...
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