Cable companies: "OMG we need to be able to keep fucking over our paying customers with overpriced equipment rentals so we'll insist competing devices might be used for piracy."<p>Customers: "Excellent point. This pirate box means I don't have to keep paying you dickbags at all. See ya!"
Meh. Would've been nice, but to be honest, there are more important hills to die on than set-top boxes. Net neutrality, oligarchies, and Comcast's "pay up for privacy" are all far more concerning. And let's be honest, there's a finite number of consumer-friendly actions the FCC can reasonably enact before someone from the cable companies puts a bullet through Wheeler's head. Cross one of the other ones off the list, first.
3rd party set-top boxes will enable piracy. That's why we want them.<p>It's 2016... Can we stop accepting the name "piracy" to describe "sharing"?<p>I mean, can we get a god-fearing, red-blooded USAmerican family man to say "How DARE you call me a pirate!?" on prime-time television?