Comments on: Senators endorse broadcast flag plan

Even though a committee approved anticopying restrictions for digital TV and radio, the debate's not over.

[bobby_brady]

Well, so much for IP television if you can't record it

because of some lame broadcast flag. I would imagine it will be up to the studios to flag their "content" as non-recordable.

[zanzzz]

Throw The Bums Out!

Hollywood and the Recording Industry must get a warm and fuzzy feeling watching their lobbyist dollars working like magic on Congress. Time and again we see politicians serving the interests of content providers at the expense of consumers. As copyright laws and Digital Rights Mismanagement become more extensive and draconian, when are people going to wake up? It's past the time to vote these Republicans out of office and their cozy positions of power. Send an email to these clowns telling them you will be voting against them if they vote against you.

[declan00]

Republicans?

I think you'll find that the Democrats are more allied with Hollywood and the recording industry than Republicans, by and large.

If you read the article carefully, you'll see that the only senator to object to the broadcast flag today was a Republican.

[skeptik]

Yeah, how do you figure?

Without those rules, Bainwol said, it's "tantamount to saying that if someone buys a ticket to watch a movie in a theater, he's entitled to take a DVD of the movie home with him afterwards."

Um.... no, it's tantamount to recording off the radio or TV - something we've done for years while his industry has still managed to rack up such tremendous profits they can afford to buy silly legislation like this. Obviously it's not hurting them. They just want to end all recordind and force a pay per use model on the world so they can get even richer.

[Earl]

Recording

The money has been made selling recorders, now they are looking for a new way to cut into you'er pocket.
If you con not record why buy, boy would that take money from the gov.,(Tax. Dollars).