Broadcast Flag Approved by FCC
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Mary Hodder on 2003/11/04:
„Won't this require everyone to have cable or satellite? Otherwise, record over the analog VCR, record to digital on your video camera, and voila? This will only stop consumers from regular uses they currently enjoy, but the pirates won't be stopped. The deadline would be in advance of the congressionally mandated goal of 2007 for all TV broadcasts to switch to a digital format, which uses computer language, from the current analog format, which uses radio signals sent as waves.“
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„Boone recently mentioned how, in his view, “I don't think censorship is a bad word, but it has become a bad word because everybody associates it with some kind of restriction on liberty.” With the FCC currently on an intimidation rampage against the radio biz, Boone stepped up to suggest the preferred model of censorship for his ideal America: “It must be majority approved . voluntary...and self-imposed. Censorship is healthy for any society, and that goes for arts, entertainment, anything.“http://www.tabootunes.com/tnewshold.html - Cached
„Congress has established a federal legal statutory framework to promote the laudable public policy goal of protecting consumer privacy with regards to viewing and title information. For instance, the Cable Communications Policy Act provides a strong statutory framework for the protection of cable subscribers' personally identifiable information, requiring cable providers to obtain the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber before collecting or disclosing such information. [2] The Act also grants subscribers the right to access the data collected about them and to destroy personally identifiable information that is no longer needed to provide the service. Furthermore, the Video Privacy Protection Act prohibits the disclosure of video rental records containing personally identifiable information, except in special circumstances such as pursuant to a federal criminal warrant. [3] A broadcast flag-enabled device could collect this protected information. Broadcast flag technology should not serve as an end-run around established public policy, and thus the FCC should not issue any rule until affirmative consumer privacy protections are incorporated into the mandate.“http://www.epic.org/privacy/drm/ broadcastflagcomments.html - Cached
„In addition, watermark vendors who participated in the discussion continued to insist that the broadcast flag mechanism was technically ineffective. Q: Who created the "broadcast flag?" MPAA answer: The Broadcast Flag was created by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which is the standards-setting organization that developed the technical specifications for digital television in the U.S. EFF comment: The broadcast flag was created by Fox, and subsequently ratified by ATSC as an optional part of ATSC's standards. (ATSC did not create any obligation for manufacturers to respond to the broadcast flag in any way.) Q: The Report stated that the broadcast flag received broad consensus.“http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000148.html - Cached
„In today's New York Times, Stephen Labaton reports on the continuing controversy over the FCC's impending Broadcast Flag rules. In the midst of a back-and-forth about the rules, Labaton writes this:“http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/ 000465.html - Cached
Found at a page of Edward W. Felten, posted on 2003/10/27
„This means that a technology like TiVo, that customers enjoy but networks are afraid of, might not have ever been approved. It certainly means that things like cheap home theater PCs and software like SnapStream would likely not go to market, since they allow the direct recording of TV shows and movies into digital formats. The passing of the broadcast flag could put a stop to a lot of innovative things going on in the PVR space.“http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2003/10/ fcc_about_to_vo.html - Cached
Found at a page of Matt Haughey, posted on 2003/10/10
„We've lost a round in the Broadcast Flag fight. The FCC today decided that it didn't need to listen to the tens of thousands of Americans that wrote to it, asking to have this terrible proposal set aside, and instead adopted a rule proposed by billionaire movie studios whose biggest problem is figuring out how to spend the riches they made off the VCR after we saved their asses by telling them to get bent when they tried to get the Betamax banned the last time around.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/21542.html - Cached
„As was very much expected, the FCC ignored plenty of reasons why this is a terrible idea and has approved the "broadcast flag" for digital TV programs. All digital TV receivers will need to recognize this flag, meaning that people will (a) need to buy new equipment and (b) lose plenty of fair use rights. Note that it will do nothing to stop "piracy" as the industry claims.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/21529.html - Cached
„I am somewhat optimistic that the FCC won't condone this foolishness. Can you imagine the outrage if the FCC required every new HDTV reciever to be incompatible with every analog TV in America? On the other hand, I wouldn't bet against the FCC kowtowing to television broadcasters, particularly in an election year and especially if the requirement will only take effect a year after the election.“http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/ 001862.html - Cached
„It is because as CSIS said two weeks ago, that there is a closing window of time before people in Iraq reject us. I really don't think we have a year to get basic things up in Iraq, and I think it shows how ill prepared the neo-cons were. It's not because we'd like to see it fail, in fact it's the opposite, I was as surprised as most people when reports started coming out about how unprepared the Bush administration was to rebuild Iraq.“http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/ 000025.html - Cached
Found at a page of miketotten, posted on 2003/08/06
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