MPAA's Selectable Output Control

MPAA is asking the FCC for the ability to turn off selected video outputs. If you use cable box, DVR, TiVo, Slingbox, analog outs, etc. LISTEN UP! Find out more here:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/soc

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• soc
• selectableoutputcontrol
• mpaa
• fcc
• policy
• politics
• tech
• mandates
• movies
• cable
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• tivo
• slingbox
• electronics
• vod

[diode303]

Ahhh MPAA, when will you learn.

Consumers like convenience. We also really REALLY hate DRM. Why do you think more and more of us are going online to get our movie fix? (Oh that's right, it's because we're all a bunch of filthy freeloaders isn't it).

So instead of listening and adapting, what do you do? Come up with new ways of punishing the slowly but surely shrinking audience still supporting your old way of doing business.

Bravo. You guys should give yourselves an Oscar for a change.

[PlayerXT]

I do the easy thing and just don't own a TV, there's nothing on and news on TV is all oversimplified partisan infotainment anyway.

[rafaelrosad2387]

Excellent post I must say..

[Dakkiller1]

I'd rather buy a Blu Ray that makes me update my players firmware due to a new copy protection then pay for something that requires internet access just to watch a freaking movie for the first time. At least Blu Rays or the ones I have don't make me have to connect to the internet just to watch them. I got a player on Novermber 2009 and I never updated its frimware till December 2010 and I was still able to enjoy Avatar and Beauty and the Beast plus the update fixed a sound glitch on the ladder

[utubesnamepolsux]

Good think HDCP encryption was cracked this week, no?

ATTENTION HOLLYWOOD: Fair Use is *our legal right* (see Sony v Universal; "The Betamax Case". We will not permit you to deprive us of it, just because you want to make Even More Money.

The Internet interprets censorship -- and Malignant Customer Control Techniques -- as damage, and routes around them.

[TheSpoom]

I prefer to use the TPB input, myself.

[nilzxx]

It's not like this crap would not be cracked. It would NOT hinder piracy in any way.

[travelsonic]

@layinlow64 And that gives them the right to control our A/V equipment... how?

[biogon]

I hardly think that Yahtzee was the _originator_ of intarwebs humor or l33t5p3a|<. I recognize, among other things, various references to the styles generally thought to originate with the lolcats and somethingawful communities. There are no stick figures or pointy-eared aliens. But I'm glad to see that you're concerned with SOC!

[layinlow64]

the mpaa owns their movies and how the content is distributed