I think a lot of what the FCC is frivolous enough, but the bottom line is that they only govern shit that goes the air and not shit that comes in boxes or even travels over wires. It's why they can't regulate cable.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
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I think a lot of what the FCC is frivolous enough, but the bottom line is that they only govern shit that goes the air and not shit that comes in boxes or even travels over wires. It's why they can't regulate cable.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
I actually work for a cable company, and I can say that the FCC does have some regulations in place. Just ask anyone who's come home and yelled at us because we had to trap their services due to signal leakage.
Actually, don't. They'll tell you it's all our fault for taking their cable away from them until we can get it fixed, and won't care in the slightest that legally we had no choice.
James
Yeah, but that's more because anything that interferes with broadcast signals is illegal, not anything about cable in particular. The reason that they don't govern cable is because the way they're framed as a federal organization is that they only regulate interstate or potentially interstate communications, which includes broadcast, phones, etc. Anything entirely local (which includes cable) is out of the scope of what they can legally govern because that's supposed to be left to the states.
The day I see GM and Ferrari make the same car is the day I can put a PS673 holographic storage module in an ZBOX47 and play the same exact game.
Different approaches for different problems.
My whole point was that the government is butting in more and more on whats "fair" outside of what really constitutes any sort of monopoly. I don't necessarily mean it would be the FCC. If the government feels its their duty to step in because the iPhone is just too popular to be exclusive to one carrier (which is so infuriatingly stupid I have no words to express it), then what's to stop them from saying "hey, Gears of War 3 is dominating the multiplayer console landscape, you better port that shit to PS3 and Wii."?
*places Street Fighter 4 disc in PS3*Quote:
Originally Posted by FPM
*places Street Fighter 4 disc in Xbox360*
*boots up Street Fighter 4 via steam*
Wait what?
Now play somebody on Steam using your 360.
Speaking of that, it's ridiculous that only one GFWL game supports cross-platform play.
Shadowrun?
I prefer the ZBOX47's "catch on fire to boost frontside bus" feature.