Here's a problem I don't think is being addressed very well, and it's similar to a problem with the "Super-DMCA" bills that were shot down all over the US a few years ago.
If the MPAA is in control of the release date of DVDs, like a previous poster said, all they'd have to do is decide to keep things out of the DVD release cycle, or postpone them indefinitely, and these things would be forever blocked by SOC. Not everything that's broadcast is a movie that's going to be released on DVD, and this would rather likely allow them to turn on SOC for pretty much every TV show on the air until they have made entire seasons available on DVD.
Furthermore, and this is the ugly part, this apparently allows a private institution to directly control something which has the force of *law* behind it, without the benefit of judicial or even legislative review.
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Here's a problem I don't think is being addressed very well, and it's similar to a problem with the "Super-DMCA" bills that were shot down all over the US a few years ago.
If the MPAA is in control of the release date of DVDs, like a previous poster said, all they'd have to do is decide to keep things out of the DVD release cycle, or postpone them indefinitely, and these things would be forever blocked by SOC. Not everything that's broadcast is a movie that's going to be released on DVD, and this would rather likely allow them to turn on SOC for pretty much every TV show on the air until they have made entire seasons available on DVD.
Furthermore, and this is the ugly part, this apparently allows a private institution to directly control something which has the force of *law* behind it, without the benefit of judicial or even legislative review.