<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Party at my house! Bring beer!</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org wrote on 05/06/2005
11:34:56 AM:<br>
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> The DC Circuit has ruled in our favor, unanimously throwing out the
<br>
> FCC's broadcast flag -- the rule that would have prevented pcHDTV
and <br>
> Air2PC from making HDTV tuner cards in the US after July 1.<br>
> <br>
> <http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200505/04-1037b.pdf><br>
> "Because the Commission exceeded the scope of its<br>
> delegated authority, we grant the petition for review, and reverse<br>
> and vacate the Flag Order insofar as it requires demodulator<br>
> products manufactured on or after July 1, 2005 to recognize and<br>
> give effect to the broadcast flag."<br>
> <br>
> Next, we'll have to stop the MPAA from going to Congress to get it
back.<br>
> <br>
> --Wendy<br>
> -- <br>
> --<br>
> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.com || wendy@eff.org<br>
> Electronic Frontier Foundation<br>
> Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School<br>
> http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/<br>
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