MPAA wants to stop DVRs from recording some movies

[admin]

At the request of theatrical film makers, the Federal Communications Commission on Friday quietly launched a proceeding on whether to let video program distributors remotely block consumers from recording recently released movies on their DVRs. The technology that does this is called Selectable Output Control (SOC), but the FCC restricts its use. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) wants a waiver on that restriction in the case of high-definition movies broadcast prior to their release as DVDs.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080608-mpaa-wants-to-stop-dvrs-from-recording-some-movies.html

[drfsupercenter]

What makes them think people actually use DVRs to bootleg things? Last time I checked they had these things called "HD capture cards" that people could use to save high definition format video on their computers?

[blutach]

And what happened to the Betamax decision which alows consumers to timeshift?

And what is so "recently released" that it is on TV anyway? I guess TV series, but that is all and is not the subject of the petition.

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

My cable's Pay-Per-View is only about 2 weeks ahead of DVD... and I don't have HD, so it would not be beneficial to anybody.