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Troubleshooter · 02-22-2005, 05:14 PM

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...3&pageNumber=0

By Peter Kaplan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said that regulators had overstepped their authority by imposing a rule designed to limit the copying of digital television programs.

"You crossed the line," Judge Harry Edwards told a lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission during arguments before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

"Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the business of," Edwards said, siding with critics who charge the rule dictates how computers and other devices should work.

02-22-2005, 05:14 PM	#2
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Follow up: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...3&pageNumber=0 By Peter Kaplan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said that regulators had overstepped their authority by imposing a rule designed to limit the copying of digital television programs. "You crossed the line," Judge Harry Edwards told a lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission during arguments before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the business of," Edwards said, siding with critics who charge the rule dictates how computers and other devices should work. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle