Cable executives urged FCC Media Bureau officials to approve MPAA...
Cable executives urged FCC Media Bureau officials to approve MPAA’s request for a waiver of the FCC’s selectable output control (SOC) rules, an ex parte filed with the agency shows. Executives from NCTA and Time Warner Cable told Bureau…
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Chief Bill Lake about “potential plans” for cable operators to offer HD movies to customers before DVDs are released if the waiver is granted. “The movies which would be provided using SOC would not have otherwise been provided in such an early viewing window due to content provider security concerns,” the ex parte notice said. Opponents of the waiver also visited with Lake and other bureau staff last week. Public Knowledge raised concerns that granting MPAA’s waiver request would “continue a general pattern of undermining the purpose of [S]ection 629 [of the Communications Act] by granting exceptions that swallow the rule of interoperability,” an ex parte notice filed by Public Knowledge said.