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Wetmachine: Broadcast Flag Through the Back Door—Yet Another Episode of 'Outsourcing Big Brother' (7/8/08) by Harold Feld
Monitoring the byzantine FCC waiver system for his readers' benefit, Feld uses his blog to explain what's so important about the fact that "the Motion Picture Association of America has asked the FCC to give it a waiver of something called the 'selectable output control' rules for cable boxes":
As usual, this apparently minor request for a waiver of an obscure FCC regulation of unknown origin, governing a highly technical and mind-numbingly boring set of rules about cable set-top boxes, hides a bold power grab designed to rip off every owner of a Tivo, VCR or other perfectly legal recording device available to consumers to engage in the legal practice of recording television programs to watch them later.
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