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Just like efforts to close the analog hole, our old friend the broadcast flag (don’t remember what that is and how it was defeated? Take a quick trip back to 2005 with us) has reared it’s ugly head again. Displaying the kind of tenacity rarely seen outside of horror movie villains and potential presidential candidates, some Vista Media Center users have apparently gotten the above popup while trying to record broadcast TV from NBC. Since the FCC regulation giving the broadcast flag it’s capability to remotely

disable your recording ability was overturned, not only should it not be enabled, there’s no reason the system should reply whether it were. The EFF’s working with the makers of the HDHomeRun to find out why that happened at all (although it’s not the first time); whether it’s an honest mistake somewhere or whether Microsoft slipped a bit of additional DRM into its latest OS.

[Via EFF]

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Original post by Richard Lawler