48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag

[Andrew Green]

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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/06/21/010242.shtml?tid=129&tid=103&tid=17

More poo from the entertainment industry...

 

[ginshun]

So if this passes you will actually have to buy a DVD instead of just recording it off HBO and burning the DVD?


Oh the horror.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I think it violates the concept of "Fair Use", but I haven't looked into it much.

From SlashDot:""6/21/2005: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably." Translation: No one attempted to sneak the Broadcast flag into law.""

 

[Cryozombie]

So if this passes you will actually have to buy a DVD instead of just recording it off HBO and burning the DVD?


Oh the horror.

No, what it means is that if you are away and try and record it for later veiwing, you will be unable to.

The broadcast flag rule would have required all signal demodulators to "recognize and give effect to" a broadcast flag, forcing them not to record or output an unencrypted high-def digital signal if the flag were set.

Meaning no more set-top DVD recorders, no more TiVo, etc etc...

You would have to go back to an old fashioned VCR if you wanted to record somthing while you were away... or, of course, stay home and watch the program.

 

[arnisador]

No more TiVo? I loooooove my TiVo!

The DVR folks would work something out with the industry, I'd guess.

 

[ginshun]

No, what it means is that if you are away and try and record it for later veiwing, you will be unable to.


Meaning no more set-top DVD recorders, no more TiVo, etc etc...

You would have to go back to an old fashioned VCR if you wanted to record somthing while you were away... or, of course, stay home and watch the program.

That WOULD suck, I suppose.

 

[Cryozombie]

That WOULD suck, I suppose.

I dont watch a lot of TV, with the Exception of the Sheild... and it airs durring Class on tuesday nights... Id hate to have to not train to stay home and watch TV because the MPAA said I couldnt record it and watch it later.

 

[Andrew Green]

You would have to go back to an old fashioned VCR if you wanted to record somthing while you were away... or, of course, stay home and watch the program.

Until, of course, they tried to show that using a vcr to record broadcast flagged media is a violation of the DMCA...

 

[sgtmac_46]

Until, of course, they tried to show that using a vcr to record broadcast flagged media is a violation of the DMCA...

Maybe the whole country needs to turn the damn things off and stop buying their products for a while. We could all do something healthy for a while. Who needs 'em anyway. Tell those over-paid parasites that they can keep their "intellectual property" because we ain't buyin'.