ASsman
01-24-2006, 04:53 PM
Twats they all be.
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"Customary Historic Use" mooted
By Theo Valich: Sunday 22 January 2006, 16:30
BASTION OF digital rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has found a cause for concern when it comes to the future of consumer electronics.
It seems that both the RIAA and MPAA are keen to squish innovation by pushing measures through Congress that ensure no new digital media format will do anything that can't already (legally) be done.
The EFF unearthed draft legislation sponsored by a Republican Senator, Gordon Smith, which seeks to limit future digital broadcast media inventions in a number of ways.
The legislation proposes a "broadcast flag" be added to a digital signal by the broadcaster so that the content receiver will monitor and protect the content by means of a "Secure Moving Technology".
This it defines as "a technology that permits content covered by the Broadcast Flag to be transferred from a broadcast receiver to another device for rendering in accordance with customary historic use of broadcast content, to the extent such use is consistent with applicable law and that prevents redistribution of copyrighted content over digital networks," (our Italics).
In essence, the suggestion is that nothing should be invented in the sphere unless the RIAA and MPAA ok it first.
Are hallucinogenic drugs very popular with the venerable gentlemen at those organizations? I mean, stopping the progress of future content distribution standards, how barmy is that?
This of course, is prompted by the worries over future TV and radio (HDTV and digital radio) stations. Under the draft, the Fair Usage model would be replaced with "Customary Historic Use" - a model in which the distribution of digital content would be outlawed after the content is delivered to the subscriber of a service.
Want to save that historic 2007 SuperBowl? In the US, forget it. Your offspring debuted on national TV network? Sorry, no saving the tape unless your kid brings the it home from the station (and even that could be illegal too).
Add to that that no standard could be developed without the express permission of the RIAA/MPAA committee. Which brings us to a possible scenario: You want to develop a next-gen memory card and submit your idea to the board consisting of very technical folk... "Can it be used to save broadcast content? Yes? Well, we'll ring you back... never."
All that your humble journalist can conclude is the following: the US really wants to end up as a technological backmarker, after Japan, China, Britain, Germany and who knows what other countries... Heck, even in my Croatia with it's 4.5 million inhabitants has 3G providers, DVB-T digital TV, pay-per-view cable TV operators... and yeah, people can freely save that phenomenal documentary or a TV series on HBO. Why we want to? Well, maybe because I was at work while the show was on.
I wonder what it would take to get Americans to take a really deep look at their nation and choose progress instead of repression. Since I have lived in an unusually-liberal communist country, I can't say I have experience like my colleagues from behind the iron curtain, but suggestions inside this draft just sound... USSR-style. µ
http://theinq.com/?article=29160
PDF of Legislation Draft
http://eff.org/broadcastflag/dcp_act_2006.pdf
Just for you Enigma.
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"Customary Historic Use" mooted
By Theo Valich: Sunday 22 January 2006, 16:30
BASTION OF digital rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has found a cause for concern when it comes to the future of consumer electronics.
It seems that both the RIAA and MPAA are keen to squish innovation by pushing measures through Congress that ensure no new digital media format will do anything that can't already (legally) be done.
The EFF unearthed draft legislation sponsored by a Republican Senator, Gordon Smith, which seeks to limit future digital broadcast media inventions in a number of ways.
The legislation proposes a "broadcast flag" be added to a digital signal by the broadcaster so that the content receiver will monitor and protect the content by means of a "Secure Moving Technology".
This it defines as "a technology that permits content covered by the Broadcast Flag to be transferred from a broadcast receiver to another device for rendering in accordance with customary historic use of broadcast content, to the extent such use is consistent with applicable law and that prevents redistribution of copyrighted content over digital networks," (our Italics).
In essence, the suggestion is that nothing should be invented in the sphere unless the RIAA and MPAA ok it first.
Are hallucinogenic drugs very popular with the venerable gentlemen at those organizations? I mean, stopping the progress of future content distribution standards, how barmy is that?
This of course, is prompted by the worries over future TV and radio (HDTV and digital radio) stations. Under the draft, the Fair Usage model would be replaced with "Customary Historic Use" - a model in which the distribution of digital content would be outlawed after the content is delivered to the subscriber of a service.
Want to save that historic 2007 SuperBowl? In the US, forget it. Your offspring debuted on national TV network? Sorry, no saving the tape unless your kid brings the it home from the station (and even that could be illegal too).
Add to that that no standard could be developed without the express permission of the RIAA/MPAA committee. Which brings us to a possible scenario: You want to develop a next-gen memory card and submit your idea to the board consisting of very technical folk... "Can it be used to save broadcast content? Yes? Well, we'll ring you back... never."
All that your humble journalist can conclude is the following: the US really wants to end up as a technological backmarker, after Japan, China, Britain, Germany and who knows what other countries... Heck, even in my Croatia with it's 4.5 million inhabitants has 3G providers, DVB-T digital TV, pay-per-view cable TV operators... and yeah, people can freely save that phenomenal documentary or a TV series on HBO. Why we want to? Well, maybe because I was at work while the show was on.
I wonder what it would take to get Americans to take a really deep look at their nation and choose progress instead of repression. Since I have lived in an unusually-liberal communist country, I can't say I have experience like my colleagues from behind the iron curtain, but suggestions inside this draft just sound... USSR-style. µ
http://theinq.com/?article=29160
PDF of Legislation Draft
http://eff.org/broadcastflag/dcp_act_2006.pdf
Just for you Enigma.