[CLUE-Talk] FCC Orders Broadcast Flag in TVs by 2005

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 20:54, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Read it and weep.
> 
> http://politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2003-November/000168.html
> 
> You might recall that when this came up in Congress, via the CBDTPA (early
> 2002), it was killed by Sen. Leahy of the Judiciary Committee.
> 
> Must be nice to be the FCC, and not have to worry about things like, oh,
> consent of the governed.

I was kind of surprised to see that this was an unanimous decision. 

I think this one is going to be harder to overturn, but I think that
once the public gets wind of the fact that it will impinge on the fair
use rights they've come to expect (taping shows for later, for
example...) we'll see some serious support for reversing this decision
in Congress. 

It's sad, however, that we're having to fight so hard just to keep from
losing fair use rights...

Zonker
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