A recent U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Federal Communication Commission’s requirement of broadcast flag anti-piracy technology may give consumers more control over how they watch and record broadcast content, including digital television. That programming may be limited, however, because of content providers’ concern over piracy. Industry observers described the court decision as extremely significant, indicating that while the broadcast flag technology may be dead, the fight over guarding content from illegal copying will continue.
Why do news sites insist on headlining this story with "Anti-Piracy" when it's obviously "Anti-Fair Use"?? Hollywood surely doesn't care about "piracy" or they'd try to go after pirates: people who make a living making copies of entertainment media. Over and over, they've used advances in technology as opportunities to get into my home and stop me from doing what the courts and the legislature have called "fair use." They waste taxpayer money on measures that would not slow down a pirate for a heartbeat, but they somehow get news sites to say it's "anti-piracy." Could it possibly be that media consolidation means that most of the news sites are owned by the same people who own Hollywood?
Way back the MPAA tried to take our right to record regular television with VCRs away and failed. That failure earned them BILLIONS of dollars when the market for Movies on VHS openend up. . Now they want to kill the DVR, because they have this pipe dream of charging everyone for every viewing. But they have to take away my over 20 years of being able to record brodcast content. That's too high a price to pay all around. They should learn their lesson from the last time and figure out how to make billions of dollars off of HD content, instead of how to cripple it so that no one will really want it or be able to do what they want with it. . Everyone knows full well that if they get the copy flag, all the biggest shows will once again DEMAND that you sit in front of the TV a the networks pre-determined time or miss the show. If that's my choice, I think I'll miss. Of course I'm sure they'll be more than eager to set up a service where I can pay them a couple of bucks a time to get my fair use recording rights "back". . I say to hell with the copy flag.
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FCC Anti-Piracy Play Rejected
Posted by: Jay Lyman May 9, 2005 11:37 AMA recent U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Federal Communication Commission’s requirement of broadcast flag anti-piracy technology may give consumers more control over how they watch and record broadcast content, including digital television. That programming may be limited, however, because of content providers’ concern over piracy. Industry observers described the court decision as extremely significant, indicating that while the broadcast flag technology may be dead, the fight over guarding content from illegal copying will continue.
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Now they want to kill the DVR, because they have this pipe dream of charging everyone for every viewing. But they have to take away my over 20 years of being able to record brodcast content. That's too high a price to pay all around. They should learn their lesson from the last time and figure out how to make billions of dollars off of HD content, instead of how to cripple it so that no one will really want it or be able to do what they want with it.
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Everyone knows full well that if they get the copy flag, all the biggest shows will once again DEMAND that you sit in front of the TV a the networks pre-determined time or miss the show. If that's my choice, I think I'll miss. Of course I'm sure they'll be more than eager to set up a service where I can pay them a couple of bucks a time to get my fair use recording rights "back".
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I say to hell with the copy flag.