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Submission + - MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations

Submitted by carlmenezes
carlmenezes writes: The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home. "Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends". Do you think they're going too far? Full story here

FCC Nixes Airport's Ban On Private Net Access 165

Posted by kdawson from the piggy-piggy dept.
Several readers wrote to let us know about a ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission forbidding Boston's Logan Airport from shutting down airline-supplied Internet access services that compete with the airport's own, for-pay wireless coverage. From the article: "A two-year effort by Logan International Airport officials to shut down private alternatives to the airport's $8-a-day wireless Internet service was decisively rejected yesterday by federal regulators, who blasted airport officials for raising bogus legal and technological arguments."
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Apple Halts Trusted Computing Development

Submitted by
thatguywhoiam
thatguywhoiam writes: "Not that there was much to begin with, but a short article by Amit Singh (by way of Boing Boing) details the moves Apple has made lately in regards to their TPM-enabled hardware. From the executive summary: "Regardless of what the media has been harping on for a long time, and regardless of what system attackers have been saying about the "evil TPM protection" Apple uses, Apple is doing no TPM-related evil thing. In fact, Apple is doing no TPM-related cryptographic thing at all in Mac OS X.""
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft has no plans for Zune outside US

Submitted by Big Ron
Big Ron writes: Last week a Microsoft exec claimed Zune would only launch in the UK sometime around the end of 2007 or early 2008. But in an interview with silicon.com the head of Microsoft UK claims there are "no firm plans to launch anywhere else globally" — or even if it will launch anywhere else (although that seems unlikely). So looks like tough luck if you're outside the US after 14 Nov.

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