[vox] No Broadcast Flag!

[Marc Elliot Hall]

In a major victory for Free software, a federal appeals court ruled this
morning that the FCC cannot require consumer hardware to recognize and
obey the so-called Broadcast Flag on digital television:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89TOLR80.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

This means that the technology to control digital receivers will be
available for Linux, after all - So I can build a MythTV box that gets
digital cable in high def.

Not that I watch TV, or anything ;-)

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Marc Elliot Hall
www.hallmarc.net