Sony takes up DVR-blocking Selectable Output Control fight

Sony takes up DVR-blocking Selectable Output Control fight: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica

It looks like Hollywood's bid to take over your home video system got a second wind this week. On Tuesday two top executives from Sony Television and Sony Pictures, accompanied by an influential lobbyist, met with the Federal Communications Commission to talk up (PDF) "the advantages of expanded consumer choices in the marketplace" which would supposedly come with a waiver on the agency's ban on Selectable Output Control. That bright idea originates with the Motion Pictures Association of America.

Present at the meeting were Sony Pictures TV President Steve Mosko, Sony Executive Vice President Frances Seghers, and Jim Free of the Free-Smith Group, which got almost a million bucks to lobby for Sony in 2008. They met with Interim FCC Chair Michael Copps and Paul Murray, the Wireless Bureau's senior attorney.

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