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Top Tech companies set to stop consumers from recording HDTV

Posted by geeknews at 3:56 AM on July 14, 2004

A new coalition made up of big name technology companies IBM, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Warner Bros., Disney and Panasonic have vowed to stop consumers from being able to record HDTV in the privacy of our own homes. Their is already legislation to lock out your Digital Video recorders starting July 1st through embedded chips. This coalition is not good news for the consumer and those of you that care about fair use rights are going to need to speak up because these companies are vowing to control what you can do with content you pay for already. [News.com]

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