Cory Doctorow has a new piece up on Boing Boing about the FCC’s shameful decision to allow Selectable Output Control. Cory Doctorow sometimes goes a little far in his crusade against DRM. Don’t get me wrong, “far” seems a pretty good distance to go to rail against DRM, but in this particular case I’m not sure it’s far enough.
Comments closedNow, the FCC could have solved this by saying that only movies that are in their first theatrical release run can have SOC turned on, but they didn’t, because they knew that the MPAA was lying through its teeth about using SOC to enable the “new business model” of showing you first run movies in your home.
via Boing Boing