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Engadget has a fascinating (fascinating!) article up now on the dispute between TiVo and Cable Companies over the integration of decryption features into set-top digital cable boxes before the FCC. I recommend that everyone read it. The authors, editors at the Science and Technology Law Review of a highly prestigious law school, do an excellent job of drawing out the fine legal issues involved. Indeed, this will no doubt go down as the seminal work in the area of CableCARDs and the FCC's integration ban.