BREAKING NEWS: Broadcast flag is back (Stevens sneaks broadcast flag

[NVMojo]

bill into net neutrality bill! The repukes must have crapped their drawers yesterday when they saw almost a half a million downloads of Colbert's piece on Crooks and Liars!)

May 1, 2006

I just saw that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the inspiration for our iPod campaign, introduced a Net Neutrality bill in the Senate today. Sen. Stevens took this oppertunity to slip the broadcast flag into the bill. From Multichannel:

According to a summary released by the Senate Commerce Committee, the Stevens bill would:
...
Authorize the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy;There are lots of things going on in this bill, it's 135 pages, but any bill that enables the FCC to implement the Broadcast Flag must be stopped.

This is another tool in the arsenal of the Hollywood cartels. They are attempting to overwhelm the tech community by introducing terrible legislation after terrible legislation hoping that we don't notice or are spread too thin fighting their other bills. This comes right after IPPA (DMCA 2.0) in the House and Senator Feinstein's (D-Hollywood) PERFORM Act in the Senate.

more...

http://ipaction.org/blog/2006/05/breaking-news-broadcast-flag-is-back.html

[Ezlivin]

1. How can they stop me if I put a videocamera on a tripod facing the TV?

Can their broadcast flag prevent me from taping what my television displays if I don't try to get it from TiVO or some other such means?

Yeah, and speeding in cars stopped after the introduction of the radar gun.

[Julius Civitatus]

2. This bill aims to kill most video blogging (Crooks & Liars, CanOFun, etc)

Even though there are serious questions regarding FAIR USE that are not contemplated by this new restriction to freedom of speech.

[grottieyottie]

7. Fair use most likely does not cover sites

That advertise.

[onenote]

3. i don't like the flag provisions, but Stevens didn't exactly "sneak" them

into the bill. They have their own subtitle in the bill. The summary released by his office describes them. There's no effort to hide what he's doing, he's just doing it.

onenote

[msongs]

4. you are not helpless victims here

"...another tool in the arsenal of the Hollywood cartels." ?

what cartels are those, exactly, the people who design, create, PAY FOR and make things?

you are free to design, create, and make things yourself if you like, so that you can be free of those "cartels"
You are free to start your own movie company, tv company, broadcast company, technology company so you can get what
you want when and how you want it.
You are free to turn off your tv if you don't like what it brings and how it is regulated.


"the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor"

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[Betsy Ross]

6. First post I have seen that comes close to supporting

copyright laws. Companies do put money in research, development, production, etc., and have a right to expectations of copyright protection and licensing fees.

[populistdriven]

5. This has to be KILLED!