Broadcast flag rule may be overturned.

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fyi - apparently it is common practice for judges, in the opening round of a
case, to play devils advocate and over-state positions, all in an attempt to
feel out the positions and strengths of the combatants before them. "You
crossed the line" may just be a fishing statement vs. a preview of an actual
position.

It will be interesting to see what unfolds though.

Thomas Gilg

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Screw the FCC! the public airwaves belong to US!
any OTA program should be able to be copied as much as you want for
your own personal use. it's bad enough their turning radio stations
into clones of the 1950's roger ebert got censord on howard sterns
show for saying tits. By the time the FCC gets done you won't be able
to record anything, or say anything that's not pre-approved by them
land of the free, yeah right not here.



On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:35:40 -0500, "Matthew L. Martin"
<nothere@notnow.never> wrote:

>Take a look:
>
><http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/breaking/breakingnewsarticle.asp?feed=OBR&Date=20050222&ID=4259443:
>
>> FCC Overstepped Authority on Digital TV February 22, 2005 3:07:00 PM
>> ET
>>
>> By Peter Kaplan
>>
>> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said that
>> regulators had overstepped their authority by imposing a rule
>> designed to limit the copying of digital television programs.
>>
>> ``You crossed the line,'' Judge Harry Edwards told a lawyer for the
>> Federal Communications Commission during arguments before a
>> three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
>>
>> ``Selling televisions is not what the FCC is in the business of,''
>> Edwards said, siding with critics who charge the rule dictates how
>> computers and other devices should work.
>>
>> But it was unclear whether the judges would strike down the FCC's
>> 2003 rule, since doubts were also raised about whether the American
>> Library Association and other opponents had legal standing to
>> challenge the rule in court.

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Dargo wrote:
> Screw the FCC! the public airwaves belong to US!
> any OTA program should be able to be copied as much as you want for
> your own personal use. it's bad enough their turning radio stations
> into clones of the 1950's roger ebert got censord on howard sterns
> show for saying tits. By the time the FCC gets done you won't be able
> to record anything, or say anything that's not pre-approved by them
> land of the free, yeah right not here.
>
>


It's not the FCC per-sey. The FCC caved-in from pressure from Viacom,
the owner of CBS. Its Hollywood that is demanding control over your TV.
The irony is that it isn't going to be the government under your bed, it
will be Hollywood with their DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
rights, HDCP, broadcast flag and whatever other draconian measures they
dream up.