01.22.06
Boing Boing: Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too
Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too
Update: Here’s EFF’s action-center item for writing to your Senator about this.The Senate has introduced the “Digital Content Protection Act of 2006,” a bill that will create “Broadcast Flags” for all digital radio and television, leading to FCC oversight of all new digital media technologies from iPods and PSPs to TVs and DVD recorders.
Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models.
Read the whols story from Boing Boing:
Boing Boing: Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too
