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Build your own DVR – Lifehacker

April 12, 2006

Build your own DVR – Lifehacker

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O’Reilly: Building My MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware

June 29, 2005

O’Reilly: Building My MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware

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Group Warns DVRs Endangered

July 28, 2004

Wired has a good story covering the fight against the FCC’s broadcast flag mandate [PDF] which would limit future video technology and put the rights of the television watcher (us) thoroughly in the control of the media industry: Group Warns DVRs Endangered. Read my previous post for more information about the DTV Liberation Front.

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DTV Liberation Front

July 1, 2004

The EFF is calling for others to join the DTV Liberation Front. What is the DTV Liberation Front you ask? It is a group trying to make it easier for non-geeks to set up digital video recorders (Tivo-like devices) that will not be subject to upcoming Federal DRM legislation. A year from today (July 1, [...]

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INDUCE Act

June 18, 2004

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently broke the story about the latest rights-constricting work of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): the INDUCE Act. As the EFF put it:
It’s the Hollings Bill by other means — an over-reaching new form of indirect liability that will force technology companies of all kinds to “ask permission” before innovating for [...]

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