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Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub

Posted by michael on from the programming-restored-to-original-meaning dept.

natpoor writes "Cory Doctorow writes an excellent piece in this week's TidBITS about how Hollywood is out to destroy the digital hub and what it means for citizens and open source. "In Hollywood's paranoid fantasy, digital television plus Internet equals total and immediate 'Napsterization' of every movie shown on TV." Slashdotters will know some of it, but this is the best write-up I've seen, and it is well-linked. Far more important than AOL on OSX!"

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  1. Re:FCC?! by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    2) who do I bitch-slap at the FCC for this insanity?

    Nobody at the FCC...You bitch-slap the unelected President of the United States for installing his big-business cronies into the FCC to make sure that "industry-friendly" (read: anti-Consumer) rules make it through without all that pesky congressional debate.

    Michael Powell seems exclusively interested in taking more rights away from citizens...If he had been around during LPFM, we wouldn't HAVE LPFM...
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