Anonymous Coward User ID: 72735637 Germany 08/06/2016 06:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV www.eff#org/deeplinks/2016/08/copyright-office-jumps-set-top-box-debate-says-hollywood-should-control-your-tv The FCC’s plan would let cable and satellite subscribers choose the devices and apps they can use to access pay TV content instead of being limited to the leased set-top boxes and walled-garden apps provided by the cable and satellite companies. That’s not just a great goal; it’s also the law—Congress ordered the FCC to pursue this goal all the way back in 1996, but cable companies and TV producers have fought against it for over 20 years. Choice and competition threaten cable and content companies’ power to control what programming gets seen or ignored, how we can search for it, and who can build the hardware and software. Currently, that power over the design of personal TV technology derives from a confluence of unfair private agreements and monopoly power, not from copyright law. Copyright gives rightsholders power to control copying, but not technology design; in fact, that sort of control is antithetical to copyright’s purpose. Over thirty years ago, in Sony v. Universal, the Supreme Court refused to allow movie studios to “extend [their] monopoly” into “control over an article of commerce”—the videocassette recorder—“that is not the subject of copyright protection.” You can search all 280 pages of the Copyright Act, and you won’t find anything that says a copyright holder has the power to control search functionality, or channel placement, or to decide who can build a DVR or video app. The FCC wants to unlock your cable box, and Silicon Valley agrees [ link to boingboing.net] Silicon Valley has managed to break apart the long-locked cable TV bundle. On Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission okayed a proposal to let cable TV customers swap out their Comcast or TWC cable boxes for third-party boxes and applications. The set-top box market is worth some $20 billion. The FCC's move is a big win for Apple, Amazon, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, Chromecast, and others yet to come. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72734690 Australia 08/06/2016 06:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV I will copy whatever the fuck I like, however I fucking like, whenever I fucking like. And let you pissweak bitches come to tell me otherwise? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72734690 Australia 08/06/2016 06:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV The FCC’s plan
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72735637 Oh yes those Fucking Crap Cunts. Who cares about them anyway? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72726610 United States 08/06/2016 06:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV TV and cable are dead. Why brother worrying about the electric Jew? |
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User ID: 71296882 United States 08/06/2016 06:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV The set-top box market is worth some $20 billion. The FCC's move is a big win for Apple, Amazon, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, Chromecast, and others yet to come.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72735637 Fuckem, thats why I built a Kodi box. Last Edited by BrokenTech on 08/06/2016 06:49 AM |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72735637 Germany 08/06/2016 09:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Copyright Office Jump Into Set-Top Box Debate, Say Hollywood Should Control Your TV |