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FCC Set-Top Box Rulemaking

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FCC Set-Top Box Rulemaking

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    Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | December 26, 2016

    What Happened to Unlocking the Box? 2016 in Review

    EFF spends a lot of time investigating the latest trends and developments in technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the most recent threats to your digital rights. This isn’t one of those stories. This is a story about a technology that’s even older than our organization, that’s barely...

    • Read more about What Happened to Unlocking the Box? 2016 in Review
  • Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | October 25, 2016

    Newly-Released Documents Show Hollywood Influenced the Copyright Office’s Comments on Set-Top Boxes

    Months of aggressive lobbying by the MPAA and its allies at the Copyright Office gave them the result they desired
    Update: a timeline of events based on the Copyright Office e-mails is here.
    In the current debate over cable set-top box competition, content and cable industries worked...

    • Read more about Newly-Released Documents Show Hollywood Influenced the Copyright Office’s Comments on Set-Top Boxes
  • Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | September 13, 2016

    Copyright Shouldn't Hold Technology Back

    Let’s Send a Message to the FCC: Consumers, Not Hollywood, Should Drive the Pay TV Market

    The FCC is about to make a decision about whether third-party companies can market their own alternatives to the set-top boxes provided by cable companies. Under the proposed rules, instead...

    • Read more about Copyright Shouldn't Hold Technology Back
  • Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | September 7, 2016

    Content Companies Demand Total Control of Set-Top Boxes at FCC

    It has always been about gaining control over technology and never about copyright law.
    Major TV producers have finally said what they really want from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in exchange for breaking up the cable companies' monopoly over set-top boxes. As they continue to push fake...

    • Read more about Content Companies Demand Total Control of Set-Top Boxes at FCC
  • Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | August 3, 2016

    Copyright Office Jumps Into Set-Top Box Debate, Says Hollywood Should Control Your TV

    The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to bring much-needed competition and consumer choice to the market for set-top boxes and television-viewing apps. Under the FCC’s proposed rule change, pay-TV customers would be able to choose devices and apps from anywhere rather than being forced to use the box...

    • Read more about Copyright Office Jumps Into Set-Top Box Debate, Says Hollywood Should Control Your TV

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Legal Documents

  • August 3, 2016
    Letter from Maria Pallante to FCC re Set-Top Boxes
  • May 23, 2016
    FCC Unlock the Box Reply Comments

    Read EFF’s commentary: Copyright Doesn’t Mean Unlimited Control

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