dannyboy79
March 19th, 2007, 01:12 PM
Secret Identity:
The Broadcast Flag is a signal Hollywood wants embedded in all over-the-air digital television signals. Devices forced by law to obey the flag will only be able to output to other gadgets that restrict your legitimate uses.
Corruptible Power: Remote Control of your TV, Elimination of Open Source Recorders
Today, you can use any device you like with your TV: VCR, TiVO, DVD recorder, or a PC. With the Broadcast Flag, future innovators will need permission from the FCC and Hollywood before they can build new features into their TV receivers and recorders. Hollywood sued to stop home video-recorders in the 1980s; they grumbled and threatened DVR companies to drop the "skip ads" feature. With the Broadcast Flag, they'll get to veto future TV gadgets before you ever see them.
Broadcast Flag's second Hollywood power is to cut off open-source development from accessing TV. Devices must be designed so that users cannot modify the gadgets, or access the TV data-streams directly themselves. This rules out open source, user-modifiable digital TV software like MythTV or GNU Radio.
Vulnerability: Your Voice
Hollywood tried to get the Broadcast Flag enforced by the FCC -- but we took them to court and had the flag thrown out. Now, they're lobbying Congress to regain their powers. We successfully fought off a fistful of attempts to sneak the Broadcast Flag into law last congress. Now tell your representatives below to vote against the Broadcast Flag, whenever it appears again.
PLEASE GO HERE AND HELP THE OPEN SOURCE CAUSE!!!!!!
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr004=skc2yrq5h1.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=231
The Broadcast Flag is a signal Hollywood wants embedded in all over-the-air digital television signals. Devices forced by law to obey the flag will only be able to output to other gadgets that restrict your legitimate uses.
Corruptible Power: Remote Control of your TV, Elimination of Open Source Recorders
Today, you can use any device you like with your TV: VCR, TiVO, DVD recorder, or a PC. With the Broadcast Flag, future innovators will need permission from the FCC and Hollywood before they can build new features into their TV receivers and recorders. Hollywood sued to stop home video-recorders in the 1980s; they grumbled and threatened DVR companies to drop the "skip ads" feature. With the Broadcast Flag, they'll get to veto future TV gadgets before you ever see them.
Broadcast Flag's second Hollywood power is to cut off open-source development from accessing TV. Devices must be designed so that users cannot modify the gadgets, or access the TV data-streams directly themselves. This rules out open source, user-modifiable digital TV software like MythTV or GNU Radio.
Vulnerability: Your Voice
Hollywood tried to get the Broadcast Flag enforced by the FCC -- but we took them to court and had the flag thrown out. Now, they're lobbying Congress to regain their powers. We successfully fought off a fistful of attempts to sneak the Broadcast Flag into law last congress. Now tell your representatives below to vote against the Broadcast Flag, whenever it appears again.
PLEASE GO HERE AND HELP THE OPEN SOURCE CAUSE!!!!!!
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr004=skc2yrq5h1.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=231