TeraMedia
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Obama: Mr. Page, as Technology Advisor to the President, I would like to ask what the Government of the United States should be doing differently to help businesses succeed.
Larry: Mr. President, with all due respect, WHAT THE F@!#$% is going on with the USPTO? I can't wipe my a$$ without getting sued for patent infringement! It's hurting everyone but the lawyers. Something has to change.
Fast forward 3 months to an article by Kevin Parrish...
On a different note, I am so fed up with the cable co's it's mind-stopping. First, they require STBs to decode expanded basic, and the FCC shuts them down on that front. Then, they develop and require cable cards, but deliberately make them not work well. THEN, they change the technology so that a cable card alone is not enough; you need a tuning adapter that sends back requests to the cable co to run on or off a specific channel. In the mean-time, they send out single-copy-only signals with programs that should be freely-copyable, preventing sharing of recorded TV within a home, but at the same time offer "whole house DVR" because their own DVRs ignore the copy-once signal. They force 3rd parties to go through extremely expensive and time-consuming procedures to get OCUR certification, but their own devices would likely fail such tests.
/rant
The only way this could end well is if the FCC or FTC steps in and separates the connection provider from the content provider. Take away the monopoly that the Cable Co has on the coax going to your wall, and all-of-a-sudden the rules change.
Larry: Mr. President, with all due respect, WHAT THE F@!#$% is going on with the USPTO? I can't wipe my a$$ without getting sued for patent infringement! It's hurting everyone but the lawyers. Something has to change.
Fast forward 3 months to an article by Kevin Parrish...
On a different note, I am so fed up with the cable co's it's mind-stopping. First, they require STBs to decode expanded basic, and the FCC shuts them down on that front. Then, they develop and require cable cards, but deliberately make them not work well. THEN, they change the technology so that a cable card alone is not enough; you need a tuning adapter that sends back requests to the cable co to run on or off a specific channel. In the mean-time, they send out single-copy-only signals with programs that should be freely-copyable, preventing sharing of recorded TV within a home, but at the same time offer "whole house DVR" because their own DVRs ignore the copy-once signal. They force 3rd parties to go through extremely expensive and time-consuming procedures to get OCUR certification, but their own devices would likely fail such tests.
/rant
The only way this could end well is if the FCC or FTC steps in and separates the connection provider from the content provider. Take away the monopoly that the Cable Co has on the coax going to your wall, and all-of-a-sudden the rules change.