RIAA & MPAA at it again

[grappa]

http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=181

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/01/hollywood_after_the_.html

On Thursday, November 3rd, the heads of the MPAA and RIAA presented to the House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property their plans for the future of digital technology.

For high-definition television (HDTV), the MPAA demands every receiver must have, and obey, the broadcast flag. For new radio technologies, you'll be restricted to recording radio shows for a minimum of 30 minutes, for a maximum of 50 hours. And all analog to digital video conversions will be forced to watch for, and obey, a concealed copy restriction mark.

If any one of these provisions pass, it would be a disaster for you and for innovation.

There'll be no room for open source software here. All of these devices must be "robust" -- welded shut to prevent alteration by their owners.

There'll be no room for innovation without the say-so of Hollywood. And there'll be no fair use copying without breaking the law.

 

[loup garou]

JESUS. How many times are they going to try and ram the Broadcast Flag through? This is ridiculous.

 

[Anubis]

someone really just needs to kill all of them allready

 

[40Hands]

Boycott the RIAA/MPAA!

 

[BriGy86]

there was a thread on this earlier, and had a link that you could mail your senetor or congressman about it

don't know where it is though

*EDIT* just saw the 1st think, looks like you can send the email i was talking about from there

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Anubis
someone really just needs to kill all of them allready

 

[0roo0roo]

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/analog-hole.ars

and well everyone knows about sony being a stooge for them

 

[Rainsford]

Why don't they face more opposition from the computer and home theater industries? I would think the folks that make all that stuff would be against the MPAA controlling what functionality they can build into their products just as much as consumers would be. And as far as I know, they are much larger than the MPAA.