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Does NBC Control Your TV? (May 15 2008 22:47 GMT) - Reports are coming in of digital video recording systems refusing to record NBC programs - both on digital cable and over-the-air transmissions. We're still investigating whether these involved over-the-air digital TV, which would mean that NBC was the first broadcaster to attempt to revive the abandoned ATSC "broadcast flag" (as opposed to cable and analog copy control signals like CGMS-A which have been used before). Thanks to the activism of thousands of concerned tech users, hardware and software manufacturers that handle over-the-air digital TV do not need to obey the digital TV broadcast flag. There is no "broadcast flag" copy control requirement for these tuners, since the courts overturned the FCC's plans to enforce it in 2005; and despite the entertainment industry's bluster, it does not look like a broadcast flag law will be passed before the digital switch-over next year. |
Club for Growth
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Don Young Votes for Tax Hike (May 15 2008 22:47 GMT) - Another Week, Another Tax Hike From Don Young Washington ? As if Don Young?s proposal to raises the gas tax last week wasn?t sufficiently hostile to taxpayers, today, the Alaskan voted for the absurdly named ?Patriot Tax? |
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