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Forty-Eight Hours To Stop The Broadcast Flag!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links

I noticed this over on Boing Boing:

URGENT: Call your Sen­a­tor RIGHT NOW or live with the god­damned Broad­cast Flag for­ever!
Danny sez,

We’ve heard rumors that the Broad­cast Flag that Cory, the EFF, and a coali­tion of pres­sure groups have fought so hard against (and beat in the courts) will be sneaked back via an amend­ment to the giant Sen­ate Appro­pri­a­tions Bill in a sub-committee at 2PM EST on Tues­day 21st. This week is Hollywood’s last chance to ram the flag past Con­gress, and they’re work­ing hard to get it under the radar.

There’s no time to write let­ters or start a media campaign…

Be sure to let your sen­a­tor know you oppose this fair-use killer! If you’re not sure the best way to con­tact your sen­a­tor; then check out this EFF Action Alert for more details.

Update 2005-06-22: For those of you who are unfa­mil­iar with what the Broad­cast Flag is…

A broad­cast flag is a set of sta­tus bits (or “flags”) sent in the data stream of a dig­i­tal tele­vi­sion 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 hard disk 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 high-definition video to the res­o­lu­tion of stan­dard TVs), and inabil­ity to skip over commercials.

Taken from Wikipedia.

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