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Saturday, 8. May 2010

U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy


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 model” that wouldn’t develop in the absence of such anti-piracy protection, the Federal Communications Commission said today in an order.

bloomberg.com

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