Snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager offers insight on how digital TV is rapidly heading toward the kind of solitary that pleasure and declaration lobbies desire for the Internet. right such as HDMI and HDCP are acting in concert to strip your equipment of its functionality, displaying 'incompatibility' messages when plugged into older HDMI-enabled devices, shutting down analog outputs when active, and requiring balky handshake credentials that force many consumers to reboot their TVs to recover approbation to watch them. Even broadcasting flagging, which has been overturned by the Court of Appeals, is still on the de-facto table, as the treat




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definition:something lobby retains the power to bully telecommunications companies into baking program flagging into their wares. Sure, digital TV has far fewer points of origin than the online network and is therefore easier to control, but, as Yager writes, 'Internet rights restrictions come through your telecommunications equipment' — and it is likely through that equipment that the banquet and show lobbies will chip away at your rights on the Web."

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