- French government is still trying a three strikes regime for copyright infringers
- Cable operators meet with the FCC to push SOC, again
Matthew Lasar at Ars shares the latest activity on this successor to the failed broadcast flag. The rhetoric hasn’t changed, the last time the studios were pushing selectable output control, they were making the same arguments about its necessity to release movies sooner to VoD and PPV. The problem with this remains that SOC isn’t limited to that one use case, it could and most likely would be used to implement the sort of veto the studios, and now the cable operators, clearly want on new devices that threaten their existing revenue streams. - Big Content pressures Hulu to block more browsers, now from mobile devices
- RIAA updates its school curriculum
- More on changes to RIAA school curriculum
- Opportunity for citizen action on EU telecoms package
- Microsoft now supports multimedia tags in HTML5
- GGF hit by bankruptcy order
- FCC to announce support of net neutrality this coming week
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