Broadcast Flag Legislation - Here we go again!

[I4one]

Thanks to the fine Senator from Oregon (I forget the Bozos name at the moment) ...anyway

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060106-5922.html

Broadcast Flag praised, panned in Senate hearing

1/24/2006 10:10:21 PM, by Ken "Caesar" Fisher

The Broadcast Flag was up on the Hill Wednesday for a full hearing in front of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The two-hour, two-panel hearing solicited general feedback on whether or not Congress should provide the FCC with the authority to put the broadcast flag in place. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) presided over the hearing, which included discussion on the merits of the broadcast flag for both television and radio.

In general, there was a slight bias towards supporting the broadcast flag, although it was clear from listening to the two-plus hour hearing that not all parties involved understand the technology or what is at stake, while some others are embarrassingly dishonest and disingenuous. In what follows, I am going to highlight the most important points of the discussion, and engage those points where I see problems.
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just lovely

[I4one]

** Updated info **

See the hearing that took place this past Tuesday January 24, 2006 (Time; 2hr. 11min.)

watch via your Real Media Plugin (within Browser - yuk!)
http://commerce.senate.gov/archive.b...flag012406.ram

Direct d/l - Copy and Paste this URL into whatever player you have set up for Real Media files (I use Media Player Classic / Real Alternative)
rtsp://video.webcastcenter.com/srs_g2/commerce012406.rm

Next hearing = next Tuesday (?)
More info http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/index.cfm