Legal/Government

say NO to the broadcast flag

The good folks at the EFF have got another online petition against the motion picture companies trying to shove the next piece of biased legislation down our throats:

Hollywood is at it again, trying to control the design of new digital technologies. If the motion picture studios have their way, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will force all future televisions to include Hollywood-approved "content protection" technologies. Fair use, innovation and competition will suffer. What’s more, the "broadcast flag" technology that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has proposed is so weak that it will do nothing to stem Internet redistribution of television programs. In fact, the only people hurt by this are legitimate consumers, innovators and researchers.

Go sign the petition!

Posted by Mayhem at October 10, 2003 10:39 PM