re US: Hollywood can disable TV set features

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson () realmeasures dyndns org>
> Date: May 7, 2010 11:45:48 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] re  US: Hollywood can disable TV set features

> The FCC has decided to just transform the Internet into the Incumbent-net, and now it's trying to enact copyright 
> policy.  Again.  Why does the FCC get to do it this time, after the drubbing they received on the broadcast flag?  
> What, because this administration is beholden to MPAA and the incumbents and so we just have to deal?
>
>
> Seth Johnson
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:03:17 -0400
> Subject: [IP] re  US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Michael Painter <tvhawaii () gmail com>
> > > Date: May 7, 2010 9:00:49 PM EDT
> > > To: dave () farber net
> > > Subject: Re: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> >
> > > > > “This action is an important victory for consumers who
> > will now ha 
> > > ve far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in
> > their  
> > > homes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive
> > officer of 
> > > the MPAA, said today in a statement.<<
> > >
> > > And I see it as a slap-in-the-face and a middle finger to
> > consumers  
> > > as it's de facto instant obsolescence for the multi-millions
> > of  
> > > dollars worth of displays, switchers, sources, etc. presently
> > being  
> > > used for High Definition viewing and not using HDMI (or
> > without that  
> > > capability).
> > > Two years ago I installed a $14,000 16x16 matrix component
> > switcher  
> > > at a 'SportsBar"because it was the -only- method available to
> >
> > > deliver HD at the distances required (multiple displays
> > 75-125 ft.  
> > > from source) and now that system will only deliver 480p,  
> > > distribution of which could have been accomplished for $2000.
> > >
> > > > > The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in
> > 2008  
> > > for a waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so
> > that its  
> > > members could send movies over cable and satellite services
> > using “s 
> > > ecure and protected digital outputs,” according to the
> > trade  
> > > group’s petition at the agency.<<
> > >
> > > Trouble is, there is -lots- more content delivered by those
> > services  
> > > than just Hollywood's movies and now the Set-Top-Box will 
> > only  
> > > output 480p on analog for that content as well.
> > >
> > > IMO, this is another indication that if you're a big money
> > corporate  
> > > lobbyist, you can get the ear of the FCC.  Stuff like this,
> > along  
> > > with Hundt's admission that he tried to 'sabotage' Broadcast
> > HD,  
> > > tells me what the FCC thinks about the "consumer".
> > >
> > > --Michael
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Dave Farber
> > > To: ip
> > > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:35 PM
> > > Subject: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > > From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> > > > Date: May 7, 2010 5:35:41 PM EDT
> > > > To: List Infowarrior <infowarrior () attrition org>
> > > > Cc: Farber Dave <dave () farber net>
> > > > Subject: US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> > >
> > > > Film Studios Allowed by U.S. to Use Anti-Piracy Technology
> > on  
> > > > TV      Equipment
> > > >
> > > > By Todd Shields - May 07, 2010
> > http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-07/film-studios-said-
> > to-be-allowed-to-use-anti-piracy-technology-on-tv-sets.html
> > > > The film industry can block outputs on home television
> > equipment so  
> > > > studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers
> > from  
> > > > making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said.
> > > >
> > > > Temporarily disabling the outputs will “enable a new
> > business mode 
> > > > l” that wouldn’t develop in the absence of such
> > anti-piracy  
> > > > protection, the Federal Communications Commission said today
> > in an 
> > > > order.
> > > >
> > > > Home viewing of recently released movies over cable and
> > satellite  
> > > > systems would provide revenue for studios such as Viacom
> > Inc.’s Pa 
> > > > ramount Pictures and Sony Corp.’s film division, which
> > have seen D 
> > > > VD sales drop as more people get films through Internet,
> > mail-orde 
> > > > r and kiosk rental services. The advocacy group Public
> > Knowledge i 
> > > > s among opponents who say the plan interferes with viewer
> > choice.
> > > > The FCC order “‘will allow the big firms for the first
> > time to  
> > > > take control of a consumer’s TV set or set-top box,
> > blocking viewi 
> > > > ng of a TV program or motion picture,” Gigi Sohn,
> > president of Was 
> > > > hington-based Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
> > > >
> > > > The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in
> > 2008 for  
> > > > a waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so that
> > its  
> > > > members could send movies over cable and satellite services
> > using  
> > > > “secure and protected digital outputs,” according to the
> > trade  
> > > > group’s petition at the agency.
> > > >
> > > > “This action is an important victory for consumers who
> > will now ha 
> > > > ve far greater access to see recent high-definition movies
> > in thei 
> > > > r homes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief
> > executive office 
> > > > r of the MPAA, said today in a statement. “It is a major
> > step forw 
> > > > ard in the development of new business models by the motion
> > pictur 
> > > > e industry to respond to growing consumer demand.”
> > > >
> > > > The Washington-based MPAA represents Paramount Pictures,
> > Sony’s fi 
> > > > lm unit, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox, General
> > Electric  
> > > > Co.’s NBC Universal, Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner
> > Inc.’s  
> > > > Warner Bros. Pictures.
> > > >
> > > > To contact the reporter on this story: Todd Shields in
> > Washington  
> > > > at tshields3 () bloomberg net
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