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techdailydose.nationaljournal.com - 30 days ago
FCC Urged To Protect Web Entertainment
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Hollywood studios are asking the FCC to make protecting creative content online a core principal of its national broadband plan. In a late Friday filing, the Motion Picture Association of America wrote that if the plan -- due to Congress in February -- is to serve as a roadmap for high-speed ...
online.wsj.com - 10/28/2009
FCC May Take Back TV Airwaves
— online.wsj.com — AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are considering taking back some airwaves from television broadcasters and auctioning them off... to wireless companies to increase the availability of wireless broadband services. Federal Communications ... (more) FCC May Take Back TV Airwaves

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publicknowledge.org - 29 days ago
Tell the FCC to Say "No" to the Cable Kill Switch
— publicknowledge.org — The battle over your home entertainment equipment is heating up again and the time to make your... voice heard is now. Hollywood wants the Federal Communications Commission to grant the studios permission to engage in so-called “Selectable Output ... (more) Tell the FCC to Say "No" to the Cable Kill Switch

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techdirt.com - 11/3/2009
60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy
— techdirt.com — 31 years ago, in 1978, the television program 60 Minutes put on an episode about the awful... threat of "video piracy" to the movie industry . Featuring the MPAA's Jack Valenti, the episode focused on how the VCR was going to destroy the movie business ... (more) 60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect ...

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MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die
Techdirt — ... that was really nothing more than an MPAA scare tactic, some suggested that it was really just a first step in the process of getting the government to make sure net neutrality rules had a special Hollywood exception. So, it's interesting to note that just before that 60 Minutes episode aired (and just before Halloween), the MPAA sent a "scary" filing to the FCC warning it how the US would always be a broadband laggard if it didn't stomp out piracy. The ...

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