re US: Hollywood can disable TV set features

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us
> Date: May 7, 2010 8:39:11 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: Bob Frankston <bob2-39 () bobf frankston com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] re  US: Hollywood can disable TV set features

> "Is unviewing next?"
>
> Yes, Bob, "unviewing" is next.
>
> I won't give them my money for them to allow me to look into (but  
> not play in) their
> walled garden.
>
> It occurs to me that there are multiple routes to entertainment:   
> Movies in a walled
> garden is but one of many ways by which I can dispose of disposable  
> income.
>
> The MPAA loses the income they might have gotten from one consumer.
>
> Perhaps there are others....
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> --
>
> Bob Rosenberg
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> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Bob Frankston <bob2-39 () bobf frankston com>
> > > Date: May 7, 2010 7:52:33 PM EDT
> > > To: dave () farber net, 'ip' <ip () v2 listbox com>
> > > Cc: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > > Subject: RE: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> >
> > > I can understand that in the 1930’s and even the 1950’s the
> > > Federal Communications Commission saw its role as engineering a mark
> > > etplace because it didn’t seem as if the industry was viable on 
> > >  its
> > > own due to the limits of the technology and the need to define every
> > > aspect of a communications silo.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Today we know that the elements can be decoupled and in doing so we
> > > enable a great deal of innovation. The content can be delivered over
> > > IP or another transport and a TV is an arbitrary construct
> > > consisting of a viewing surface and an input source. The Set Top Box
> > > replaced the tuner during a transition period.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the rationale for the FCC to continue to engineer every
> > > aspect of the delivery system and to say how content should be
> > > managed in what amounts to a cartel?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If Hollywood wants to require DRM in devices it could try to sell
> > > such devices and software on the open market. HBOGo and others are
> > > doing that. I may not be happy out this but shouldn’t the FTC an 
> > > d ag
> > > encies be involved instead?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Has there at least been an impact assessment of damage done by
> > > sacrificing our ability to innovate in using the content to the
> > > needs of a particular business model from a century go? Is there any
> > > technology that Hollywood has not opposed lest it level the playing
> > > field?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is unviewing next?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 18:35
> > > To: ip
> > > Subject: [IP] US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> > > Date: May 7, 2010 5:35:41 PM EDT
> > > To: List Infowarrior <infowarrior () attrition org>
> > > Cc: Farber Dave <dave () farber net>
> > > Subject: US: Hollywood can disable TV set features
> > >
> > > Film Studios Allowed by U.S. to Use Anti-Piracy Technology on TV
> > > Equipment
> > >
> > > By Todd Shields - May 07, 2010
> > >
> > > http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-07/film-studios-said-to-be-allowed-to-use-anti-piracy-technology-on-tv-sets.html
> > >
> > > 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 o
> > > rder.
> > >
> > > Home viewing of recently released movies over cable and satellite
> > > systems would provide revenue for studios such as Viacom Inc.’s  
> > > Para
> > > mount Pictures and Sony Corp.’s film division, which have seen D 
> > > VD s
> > > ales drop as more people get films through Internet, mail-order and
> > > kiosk rental services. The advocacy group Public Knowledge is among
> > > opponents who say the plan interferes with viewer choice.
> > >
> > > The FCC order “‘will allow the big firms for the first time to
> > > take control of a consumer’s TV set or set-top box, blocking vie 
> > > wing
> > > of a TV program or motion picture,” Gigi Sohn, president of Was 
> > > hing
> > > ton-based Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
> > >
> > > The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in 2008 for
> > > a waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so that its
> > > members could send movies over cable and satellite services usin 
> > > g “s
> > > ecure and protected digital outputs,” according to the trade
> > > group’s petition at the agency.
> > >
> > > “This action is an important victory for consumers who will now  
> > > have
> > > far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their ho
> > > mes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive officer  
> > > of t
> > > he MPAA, said today in a statement. “It is a major step forward  
> > > in t
> > > he development of new business models by the motion picture industry
> > > to respond to growing consumer demand.”
> > >
> > > The Washington-based MPAA represents Paramount Pictures, Sony’s  
> > > film
> > > unit, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox, General Electric Co.’s
> > > NBC Universal, Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bro 
> > > s. P
> > > ictures.
> > >
> > > To contact the reporter on this story: Todd Shields in Washington at
> > > tshields3 () bloomberg net
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