You see, ever since FiOS starting deploying CableCARDs, a year after all the other cable providers, it has never enforced the pairing of the cards or used Copy Control Information (CCI) flags more restrictive than Copy Freely.

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The DVD Copy Control Association claims the 321 software infringes its patents.

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At that event, he castigated the motion picture industry for its lawsuit against distributors of DeCSS and said he hoped that commercial companies would fill the need in the event that the MPAA and DVD Copy Control Association suits succeed.

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Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.

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Copy editors are the quality control experts.

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But the so-called "Big Five" record labels, which control 85 percent of U.S. record sales, say built-in copy protection is the only way they can safeguard their music from freeloading downloaders.

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