Motive for mainstream media silence?

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

The FCC wants to regulate how Americans use their PCs, digital TVs, etc. This extends to everyone who consumes media or surfs the Internet, not just broadcasters:

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http://http//arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041115-4402.htmlbr%20/">"FCC clarifies that they do, in fact, control everything":

"The scope of such a claim is immense, reaching people's PCs and any other conceivable digital television consumption device. Unfortunately, it's evident that much of the FCC's latest legislation (and hubris) comes at the behest of the larger players in the content production industry, which doesn't bode well for consumers. The trifecta of increasingly draconian copyright restriction, combined with the new ability (via the DMCA) of private entities to effectively set their own copyright rules outside scope of the law, and an FCC that thinks it controls as much as it does, create a harsh environment for smaller companies and consumers."

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http://http//scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/11/180969.html">It affects everything that RECEIVES digital files from TV receiving equipment as well -- every device inside any home network. It affects the open-platform PC.:

"the FCC has established a new and extraordinarily broadregulatory regime that mandates the use of "authorized" content protection technologies by virtually every consumer electronics product and computer product -- including digital television sets, digital cable set-top boxes, direct broadcast satellite receivers, personal video recorders (PVRs), DVD recorders, D-VHS recorders, and computers with tuner cards."