Broadcast flag news

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Thu Feb 24 11:07:00 EST 2005


Note that they did the same thing when it came to the national 
do-not-call list. Then Congress just went and gave them the authority 
they needed.

I'd expect the same to happen here unless people do something about it.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4290315.stm
> 
> In short:
> 
> The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has
> "crossed the line" with an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes
> being copied.
> 




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