Comments on: Congress divided on broadcast flag plan

Some politicians say a new law is needed to prevent digital TV piracy. Others aren't so sure.

[yrrahxob]

Broadcast Flag

These people should have learned by now that no matter what kind of flags or restrictions they put on broadcast shows, it will only take around six weeks for an enterprising young hacker to figure out how to circumvent the system and publish it all over the Web. Then they will be back to square one scratching their heads while the rest of us happily record any content we want.

[heystoopid]

Oh well dumb and dumber strikes again

Oh well, to sell 300 million plus replacement digital tv's and a digital recording device to replace the old VHS, you don't sell the replacement device, which is about effective as a doorstop with the implementation of new proghibition flags! Oh well, looks like we elected a rather large bunch of dummies and halfwits in this current congressional sitting, to rule over us with their lack of wisdom and insight and the obsequient willingness to pander special interest groups! Time for a nationwide funded anti flag restriction petition, to reinject realism to these elected halfwits!

[bobby_brady]

Looks like Hollywood will have to payoff more

more in Congress than they thought.

Wasn't it the RIAA that tried to sneak some agenda of theirs in the Patriot Act?

[Heebee Jeebies]

Go ahead...

with the broadcast flag. There isn't anything on TV worth recording any more any ways. With the bleeping of words like ass and ****, the mini-commercials that they put on the bottom of the screen while the program is going, the scrunched up credits with more commercials, the regular commericals and the general lack of quality programming who in their right mind would want to record anything?

Besides it will come out on DVD and we can get it then. Thought there aren't many modern shows I am interested. I tend to go for more of the older shows that have some uniqe-ness and quality. Not this mindless junk they have today.

Robert

[Mister C]

Everything old is new again!

This is the exact same argument used to kill the DAT. All it did was stifle the industry and postpone the inevitable. Then came the CD-Rom and right after that was "Clone CD". Why waste the time and energy.