Nightmare on Your Street: Return of the Living Broadcast Flag Articles / Uh-Oh Bad PVR News Posted by rampy on Sep 26, 2005 - 09:02 PM *sigh* not that I expected it to just go away quietly in the night, but there's some interesting not all that speculative speculation/commentary on how the MPAA and RIAA are teaming up for the uber-Broadcast Flag Congress end-a-round [1] Via the anti-DRM broadcast flag haterz at BoingBoing [2] ;) "MPAA/RIAA subvert democracy with super-broadcast-flag bid The RIAA and MPAA have teamed up to demand that Congress get the FCC to create a super-duper broadcast flag for radio and TV. This means that they'll get a veto over pretty much anything that can play video or music -- from your iPod to your PC's tuner card. My cow-orker Danny O'Brien has written a brilliant, witty explanation of how the MPAA and RIAA are pulling this off in Congress, sneaking around behind closed doors to get this enacted without debate -- and what you can do to stop the enterainment cartels to stop undermining American democracy " It's time to renew/reup my EFF donation/membership [3] and suggest you consider it as well. (and not JUST for the BroadCast Flag stuff, they do a lot of defense of p2p and other digital fair use rights stuff that's important, IMHO!) This article is from Build Your Own PVR   http://www.byopvr.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.byopvr.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=479 Links in this article   [1] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004000.php   [2] http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/26/mpaariaa_subvert_dem.html   [3] http://www.byopvr.com/https://secure.eff.org