| OT: The Broadcast Flag in <48 hours? [message #161152] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 01:05  |
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YSLMuffins
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I don't usually post things like this here, but this is the first time I've seen something with such an urgent time constraint.
Behold the slow trampling of fair use in the US. The main story is at the top but there are some important comments towards the end.
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The Importance of writes "Think the Broadcast Flag is dead? EFF is warning that Hollywood is trying to sneak the broadcast flag into law as an amendment to a massive appropriations bill. 'If what we hear is true, the provision will be introduced before a subcommittee tomorrow and before the full appropriations committee on Thursday. That gives us 48 hours to stop it.' Action Alert here. List of Senator's phone numbers here."
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I love slashdot. So, would you love being forced to upgrade your old-school analog TVs to the uberleet HDTVs because cathode ray TVs are obsolete and not being able to record anything on TV? Want your VCRs useless save for those old VHS's?
This essentially puts DRM on television all in the name of piracy, but all it does is trample fair use rights. Think of DVDs with unskipable ads? It's coming...what will you do about it?
-YSLMuffins
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| Re: OT: The Broadcast Flag in <48 hours? [message #161200 is a reply to message #161152] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 10:21  |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Big corporations are such money whores.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| Re: OT: The Broadcast Flag in <48 hours? [message #161278 is a reply to message #161152] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 18:49 |
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Sanada78
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I've noticed the ads on DVD's I've bought in the last year or so. Ones before that didn't seem to have any as far as I know. But yeah, why the hell are there ads on a commecial product? It'd be like buying a can of drink but you have to read the ad before you can open it.
Ooh, nasty.
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