Re: FCC chair nixes MPAA bid for SOC (Selectable Output Control)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: January 20, 2009 3:16:33 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC chair nixes MPAA bid for SOC (Selectable  
Output Control)

[Note:  This item comes from friend Steve Schear.  DLH]

From: Steven Schear <schear.steve () googlemail com>
Date: January 14, 2009 4:48:44 PM PST
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: FCC chair nixes MPAA bid for SOC (Selectable Output Control)

[Hopefully the new FCC chairman will not veer from this course. I
think the event that triggered the MPAA's angst was the delivery of a
practical and affordable consumer device, the HD PVR from Hauppauge
(http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html), that can
circumvent analog protections to capture HD video (720p/1080i) and
Dolby  5.1 audio (from a cable/satellite STB) in real-time and output
a H.264-compliant transport stream over USB for capture on a PC.]

By Matthew Lasar  | Published: December 30, 2008 - 10:49PM CT

The holidays have been good for Hollywood, Reuters news reports, with
sentimental pooch stories like Marley & Me boosting box office
Christmas day receipts up $10 million from last year. But there's a
lump of coal in the movie industry's stocking where its advocates had
hoped for a gift from the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chair
Kevin Martin says he won't back the Motion Picture Association of
America's request for a waiver on the agency's ban on selectively
blocking video outputs.

"I'm not supportive of moving forward with this MPAA proposal at this
time," Martin told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. When
Ars asked if the issue is now tabled for the Obama administration's
FCC, the outgoing boss replied in the affirmative. "If another
Commission" wants to deal with the question, "they will be able to,
obviously, but I'm not supportive of it," he said.

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Steve
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