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Jul 24 2008 12:30PM | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

UPDATE adds quotes from Public Knowledge:
A bipartisan group of senators led by the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committe on Thursday introduced an intellectual property enforcement bill to bookend the PRO IP Act passed by the House earlier this year. While the Senate bill isn't as far-reaching as the House version in creating new federal enforcement resources, backers are hoping the Senate will act quickly to pass the bill before Congress adjourns for its August recess. That would perhaps leave time for a conference committee to hammer out a compromise between the House and Senate versions before election day or during a lame-duck session should there be one.

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Jul 23 2008 2:31PM | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

While many commentators continue (inaccurately) to harp on the studios’ “blocking DVR recording” through the use of selectable output control, the deeper issue is their evident hostility toward, or at least deep suspicion of home networking, as manifested in their multi-pronged efforts to control it.

The heart of the MPAA’s petition to the FCC for a waiver of the agency’s rules barring use of SOC by cable operators is not a desire to prevent people from recording high-def VOD movies with their DVRs—which you can’t do now anyway. Rather, the goal is assert studio control over the types of outputs that can be used or designed to connect digital d...Read More

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