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booster11373

10-03-2005, 12:26 PM

Could'nt think of a funnier title for this but its kind of important.The Broadcast flag is an attempt by the entainment industy to really lockdown end user rights on all digital mediafrom WIKIA broadcast flag is a set of status <a title="Bit" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Bit">bits</a> (or "<a title="Flag (computing)" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Flag_(computing)">flags</a>") sent in the data stream of a <a title="Digital television" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Digital_television">digital television</a> program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. Possible restrictions include inability to save a digital program to a <a title="Hard disk" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Hard_disk">hard disk</a> or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing <a title="High-definition television" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/High-definition_television">high-definition</a> video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over <a title="Advertisement" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Advertisement">commercials</a>. In the <a title="United States" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/United_States">United States</a>, new television receivers using the <a title="ATSC" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/ATSC">ATSC</a> standard were supposed to incorporate this functionality by <a title="July 1" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/July_1">July 1</a>, <a title="2005" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/2005">2005</a>, but a federal court struck down the <a title="Federal Communications Commission" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a>'s rule to this effect on <a title="May 6" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/May_6">May 6</a>. The stated intention of the broadcast flag was to prevent <a title="Copyright infringement" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Copyright_infringement">copyright infringement</a>, but many have asserted that broadcast flags interfere with the <a title="Fair use" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/Fair_use">fair use</a> rights of the viewing public.This was killed earlier this year when the courts decided that the FCC had no jurisdiction in this matter, And so the Entertainment lobby went out and found 20 congress people to bring it up again, Anyone with some tech savy thinks this is a bad idea and I tend to agree. Since I know lots of Board members are from the NY- NJ area why not give them a call or drop a email to let them know what you think thanks in advanceThe 20 are<a href="http://johnshadegg.house.gov/contact/">John Shadegg</a>, R-AZ, (202) 225-3361 <a href="http://www.house.gov/bono/contact.html">Mary Bono</a>, R-CA, (202) 225-5330 <a href="http://www.radanovich.house.gov/Contact.htm">George Radanovich</a>, R-CA, (202) 225-4540 <a href="http://www.house.gov/shimkus/contact.shtml">John Shimkus</a>, R-IL (202) 225-5271 <a href="http://www.house.gov/rush/contact.shtml">Bobby Rush</a>, D-IL, (202) 225-4372 <a href="http://whitfield.house.gov/contact/">Ed Whitfield</a>, R-KY, (202) 225-3115 <a href="http://wynn.house.gov/feedback.cfm?campaign=wynn">Albert Wynn</a>, D-MD, (202) 225-8699 <a href="http://www.house.gov/pickering/Form.htm">Charles Pickering</a>, R-MS, (202) 225-5031 <a href="http://leeterry.house.gov/staff_contact.cfm">Lee Terry</a>, R-NE, (202) 225-4155 <a href="http://www.house.gov/bass/writeorvisit.html">Charles Bass</a>, R-NH, (202) 225-5206 <a href="http://www.house.gov/ferguson/get_address2.shtml">Mike Ferguson</a>, R-NJ, (202) 225-5361 <a href="http://www.house.gov/pallone/washingto

Snoogans

10-03-2005, 01:26 PM

its kinda funny to look at a list of 20 people from different states and they all have the same area code 

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booster11373

10-03-2005, 01:28 PM

I thought that to, but its there Washington D.C. number I think

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furie

10-03-2005, 01:30 PM

i don't see how this impacts my life. 

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HBox

10-03-2005, 01:35 PM

In layman's terms, this could effectively cripple
TiVo, leaving it up to networks whether you can record their programs.
If they say no, no recording programs, no pausing live tv, no skipping
through commercials unless networks say so. 

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whitefolks

10-03-2005, 01:39 PM

12-01 - tivo does not allow you to record pay per view movies or movies on demand12-02 - hack that allows your tivo to record pay per views and movies on demand is released Im not worried.    

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SatCam

10-04-2005, 09:04 AM

It's the broadcasting company's right to choose whether we can be able to record their programming.  Why should the government be saying they can't?  It's moronic to prevent us from doing it, but it's their choice.

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HBox

10-04-2005, 09:08 PM

This broadcast flag would apply to anything
broadcasted. Of course there will be hacks, but that's no reason to
disregard this assault on fair use. And 90% of the population isn't
savvy enough to use these hacks. Hell, I think I'm being generous, it's
probably over 95%.This is just the latest strategy by content
providers. They can't defeat fair use rights, so they try and get
passed all sorts of laws conflicting with them so they can sue anyone
they want and keep things held up in courts and just wait everyone out
until they run out of money. 

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bobrobot

10-05-2005, 01:23 PM

Burn the Broadcast Flag!!!<img title="burn, baby, burn" height="300" alt="burn, baby, burn" src="http://home.att.net/~georeba/match.jpg" width="286" border="0" />I talked to some lacky for the MD guy, he'll get back to me... I'm gonna call once a day til I get him!!! IMPEACH THE BROADCAST FLAG 20!!!<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/SpongeBoboGolemPants.jpg" border="0" />If I got a biscuit, you get half ! 

This message was edited by bobogolem on 10-5-05 @ 5:29 PM