Broadcast flag rears vile head, bars viewer from recording / Irony alert: Sons of Anarchy gets broadcast flag

Broadcast flag rears vile head, bars viewer from recording: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica.

Irony alert: Sons of Anarchy gets broadcast flag.
Well, FX may broadcast a show about wild, anarchistic motorcycle guys and gals, but that's where the freewheeling spirit stops. An Ars reader tells us that he was unable to record the program for personal use, perhaps due to the infamous "broadcast flag"—those malicious bits injected into a datastream that allow distributors to shut down your ability to record content. Our informant's Sony DVD-R ran into the problem on the FX Network via DirecTV, he says, both in standard and HD channels.

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