Ending the broadcast flag (again)…

Ending the broadcast flag (again)…

Images-60-1 We killed it once, let us kill it again…Twenty members of Congress are calling for the reinstatement of the “broadcast flag,” a controversial form of copy prevention technology for digital TV broadcasts. In a letter Thursday, the politicians called for rapid approval of a federal law adopting the broadcast flag, which would outlaw over-the-air digital TV receivers and computer tuner cards that don’t follow strict anticopying standards. [via] Link.

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