Hollywood Wants Control of Your HDTV

[Kevin Spidel]

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Hollywood would like to break your TV and revert your viewing experience back a few years. Never mind the evolution of media distribution created by an open market. The large corporate trade associates want to control distribution abilities directly by breaking your TV.

The MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America) has been trying to increase movie distribution while maintaining full control of their content. Throughout the years they have joined forces with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to take on media related websites, bit torrent technology, and various file sharing programs in an effort to crack down on illegal piracy.

Enter Selectable Output Control (aka The Cable Kill Swith)

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Original article here: http://www.newmediapolicy.org/2009/11/hollywood-control-hdtv/

[Kevin Spidel]

1. Video of SOC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOGB96Hz_Dk&feature=player_embedded

[Kevin Spidel]

2. take action here

http://www.publicknowledge.org/action/say-no-to-soc

[Heywood J]

*dupe*

[Heywood J]

3. Uh, title check.

It should be "Hollywood has control of your HDTV". Between the broadcast flag and HDCP, they pretty much own your HDTV and you can't do a legal thing about those two.