US Copyright Office sides with cable companies against FCC’s set-top rules

Aug 05

Set-top box rules could enable piracy, copyright official warns.

The United States Copyright Office has sided with cable companies in their fight against a Federal Communications Commission plan to boost competition in the TV set-top box market.

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There are already “third-party set-top box devices, mainly produced overseas, that are used to view pirated content delivered over the Internet,” and the FCC’s plan could expand the market to include devices “designed to exploit the more readily available [cable TV] programming streams without adhering to the prescribed security measures,” Pallante wrote.

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