EFF: A broadcast flag update

EFF: A broadcast flag update

I know what you mean -- I considered holding back on this post until I could give a concrete action, but really we're at the point where the Broadcast Flag supporters haven't played their hand yet, and I felt it more worthwhile to brief on what was going on in the calm before the storm.

And I think it's worth noting that the tone of the "other side" in this debate is often just as apprehensive, and as fatalistic, as you feel. You, with your general purpose computers and your strange ideas of business models that is utterly alien yet apparently is the only sane choice, look like a terrifying force of nature to some one, too. For all your feeling of hopelessness at an apparently unstoppable lobbying machine, there's somebody looking at your last paragraph with a nagging doubt, and wondering whether it's worth their while to fight against an inevitability. So who knows?

Oh, and there are more reasonable and smart people at the top than it appears: often it's in the nature of politics that those who are most sympathetic can't be seen to come out publicly on your side, but work hard in the background for your cause.

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