EFF: A broadcast flag update [LWN.net]

EFF: A broadcast flag update

Posted Sep 28, 2005 16:45 UTC (Wed) by jstAusr (guest, #27224)
In reply to: EFF: A broadcast flag update by rknop
Parent article: EFF: A broadcast flag update

I'm not so sure that introducing legislation from the sane side of the fence wouldn't be effective. For instance, from the original post:

> Worrying about keeping this stuff back almost seems like worrying about
> the mounting threat of hurricanes to coastal states. It's a force of
> nature that's getting worse with no sign of abating in coming years, and
> at some point it's better to just give up and resign ourselves to failure.

What makes you so sure that the reverse wouldn't be true? At least it might let the lawmakers know that we are not happy with the current status let alone making things worse.

At least a law making it illegal to willfully restrict the backup of bytes stored on a computer to any desired backup media or device. That will give the giants something to spend their money on besides harassing the public.

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