Comments on: FCC is taking wrong turn on digital media

Public-interest advocate Gigi Sohn says that the FCC is perilously close to knuckling under to a powerplay that will limit the way consumers can use their digital media.

[Nils Jespersen]

Deja vu?

It seems we've been down this path before. Does anybody remember the paranoia that the content providers openly revealed regarding digital audio tape (DAT) and VCR recordings? All those fears ended up being completely unwarranted. So, here we have it again: paranoid content providers flexing their muscles (money) with the regulators that are supposed to be watching out for public interest and our precious freedoms. Frustrating for the 'Average Joe' is that the 'Golden Rule' is likely to apply here (the one with the gold makes the rules).

Black Market

As the first post reiterated,"Here we go again"! I, for one, will not sit-by and not be able to receive and record, for my own personal archive, any audio or video that I so desire. And, at no charge. These idiotic, autocratic beauracrates and our "spineless congress" so easily forget: "of the people, by the people, and for the people"!!!!!!! If CPRM(Content Protection for Recordable Media), as is included on all DVD recorders, and also including PC's restrictions, one can rest assured that "We The People" will always "adapt" and get what is already ours under the "Fair Use" language. "We The Consumers" will prevail, one way or the other!!!!!!!!! And "to hell" with the recording establishment!!!!!!

[bjbrock]

Content providers haven't come up with...

enough political renumeration so the FCC is dragging their feet. Politics as usual. Perhaps a deal will never be reached and this absurdity will go away for a year or two.

[Earl]

supply new tv's

If the fcc is willing to supply the new tv's, then could prss a law of that nature, if not they have no right too.
More & more this country is being put in more of a dictation than Freedom.