p2pnet - rss feed: No Broadcast Flag, says Sununu
p2pnet.net News:- US senator John Sununu is calling for legislation to stop the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from forcing broadcast or audio flags on electronics makers.
The corporate music and movie entertainment cartels want what amounts to pre-installed Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) consumer control code written into broadcast or audio streams.
Misguided requirements, “distort the marketplace by forcing industry to adopt agency-blessed solutions rather than allow innovative and competitive approaches to develop,” says Sununu, who’s on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and Senate Republican High Tech Task Force.
“We have seen this happen with the proposed video flag, and interest groups are pushing for an audio flag mandate as well,” said Sununu. “Whether well-intentioned or not, the FCC has no business interfering in private industry to satisfy select special interests or to impose its own views. My legislation will ensure that decisions about the design and development of products and services to meet FCC rules are made by technology experts, not government regulators.”
Jeff Grappone, a spokesman for Sununu’s office, said Sununu would also oppose any legislation authorizing the FCC to impose broadcast and audio flags, says told internetnews.com.
“Under pressure from the music and movie industry and several key members of Congress, the FCC in 2004 adopted broadcast flag regulations, requiring electronic equipment capable of receiving digital television to include broadcast flag technology,” says the story.
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the regulations in 2005 as beyond the regulatory scope of the FCC.”
Also See:
internetnews.com - Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising , January 9, 2006
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January 10th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Hey! I like this guy! He’s making a lot of sense. He would appear to be working at serving the interests of the PUBLIC that voted him into office rather than the usual Corporate masters. What a concept!
I wonder when HIS plane will crash?
January 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
“Whether well-intentioned or not, the FCC has no business interfering in private industry to satisfy select special interests or to impose its own views.”
Unless Janet Jackson shows her breast, Howard Stern says a naughty word, or broadcasters otherwise do something that offends certain religious groups.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
nay, the cartel havn’t given him any cash yet. now that he’s brought himself into their view, they’ll visit him, and suddenly he’ll have a change of heart. or the suppose experts will be hired from the cartels themselves.
I have faith that any politician will do whatever best lines their own pockets and the hell with their constituents.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
After my initial post it also occurred to me that left to the private sector we could end up with something much worse than broadcast flags, like Vista…
January 11th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I read from your comment that you know the FCC song!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_FCC_Song