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"Well, the FCC issued a regulation"
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“Well, the FCC issued a regulation” - Via Susan Crawford blog: And so even though the DC Circuit said the FCC didn’t have the jurisdiction to adopt that regulation, and Congress hasn’t acted to change that conclusion, Microsoft still apparently thinks its Media Center should acknowledge broadcast flags - preventing users from copying over-the-air digital broadcasts. [DC Circuit to FCC: Back Off, from the summer of 2005, describes the broadcast flag case, and I wrote frequently about this subject in 2003 and 2004.] Now, MSN is free to decide to acknowledge flags. The odd thing is that it
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