The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has closed public comments on a proposal from the Hollywood studios that would give content owners control over the recording capabilities of devices like digital video recorders, with service providers like AT&T (NYSE: T) and DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) weighing in in favor of the proposal, while groups including the Consumer Electronics Association, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) opposed it. The proposal from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) focuses on "selectable output control" (SOC) technology, which the studios want to be able to turn on to block recording of early-release HD movies on video-on-demand systems.
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/07/23/fcc-weighs-mpaa-proposal-restrict-digital-video-recorders
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