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Saving Your Set

The Issue: Studio execs want to control what your TV can do. Here's the inside story of how they were stopped . . . this time
By Cory Doctrow Posted 07.12.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

May 6, 2005, should be a holiday. It´s When a U.S. circuit court of appeals saved your TV by stopping the â€broadcast flag,†an innovation-killing regulation Hollywood had essentially blackmailed the FCC into enacting.In 2002 the major studios threatened to withhold shows and movies for broadcast on digital TV (DTV) unless the government gave them control over the design of DTV devices.

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