[LINK] US FCC to allow blocking STBs

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> [not sure how they can technically do this, but
> then again, it may be confusion by the writer]
>

Given the comment "The FCC said the technology cannot be used on a
particular movie once it is out on DVD or Blu-Ray" I'm presuming that this
is for Cable TV, and probably more likely for On-Demand cable TV only.

In almost every case the Cable company owns the boxes for cable TV, and is
capable of remotely upgrading/reprogramming the cable boxes to do basically
anything they want them to...

  Scott