There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission.

Public Knowledge is ALL fired up by the proposal of the Motion Picture Association of America’s request to the FCC for permission to engage in “selectable output control” (SOC).

If the FCC agrees, the MPAA and the movie studios it represents would be able to “turn off” any output plug they choose, like those on the back of consumer electronics devices of an entertainment system, during special video-on-demand movies on cable television.

Public Knowledge opposes SOC and along with Consumer Federation of America, Digital Freedom Campaign, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media Access Project, New America Foundation, and U.S. PIRG, has filed comments urging the FCC to deny the MPAA’s request.