Broadcast Flag
The courts will hear arguments tomorrow about the
Broadcast Flag -- a scheme that will force all
manufacturers of all multimedia hardware to check for the existence of a mark
that signals whether it's OK to copy. It would, for example, allow the
broadcaster to determine whether you could record a show on your new VCR or
Tivo.Allowing the movie studios to
legislate how technology develops is
mind-numbingly stupid. Alas, it seems to be virtually a done deal. And we
can't blame this one on Bush; the Democrats may be even more keen on this
atrocity than the Republicans.
Filed Mon - February 21, 2005, 12:05 AM in
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