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EFF: Broadcast flag update

[Posted October 11, 2005 by corbet]

The EFF has posted an update on efforts to legislate a broadcast flag in the U.S.; this one looks at the push in the House of Representatives. "Fortunately for us, the fact that 20 out of 57 committee members support the Flag sends a message the MPAA doesn't want anyone to hear: the Broadcast Flag is controversial. If it wasn't, no one would be writing open letters to anyone else. And that means this committee has a duty to engage in serious, careful, comprehensive discussion and debate before the Flag legislation goes anywhere."

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Posted Oct 11, 2005 17:24 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

if the broadcasters want to abandon free over-the-air TV then that would mean that they don't need that broadcast spectrum anymore right? if so then the government could aution it off to other wireless services for several Billian dollars.

someone should point this out to the 'industry' (I'm willing to bet that not a single TV station is threatening to shut itself down over the lack of the broadcast flag)