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FCC ruling on broadcast flags will effect computers

Posted by geeknews at 9:40 AM on November 6, 2003

Cnet covers this story in about the same angle and perspective as I would take and is pretty hard hitting in that PC users are about to get screwed. [Cnet]

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  1. From Mike M. at 7:18 am on November 8, 2003

    Not halfway through this article I thought of 3 ways around these schemes…and I’m just a Wintendo dork.
    I did not finish the article. I’m convinced that the garden-variety hacker will always have a technical upper-hand on ‘tha man’.
    (not that they should do anything BAD with their knowledge!)
    If all *HW* ever becomes ‘tagged’, then this will be a true police state (US). Hmmm… motherboard smuggling… (yikes!)