FCC

I’m sitting on the couch watching a movie.  It was getting pretty intense, you know when you’re eating your popcorn staring at the TV and can’t take your eyes off it, when all of the sudden the volume shot up as a commercial came on.  It scared the bejeebers out of me and when I [...]

At the request of theatrical film makers, the Federal Communications Commission on Friday quietly launched a proceeding on whether to let video program distributors remotely block consumers from recording recently released movies on their DVRs. The technology that does this is called Selectable Output Control (SOC), but the FCC restricts its use. The Motion Picture [...]