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Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney

Posted by chrisd on from the freedom-only-for-the-rich dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Phil Lelyveld, (email) a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer's comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs -- under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are taking comments on the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the EFF Yet? (or is it time to renew?) Update: 12/06 14:55 GMT by M : Lelyveld is not a lawyer. Here's a summary of his background.

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  1. EFF by zapfie · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I made my donation to the EFF. Did you?

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  2. Re:Applicable Quote by pVoid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Dude, those are some really nice comments (in whole - they seem)... you gotta try and find who said them =)

  3. My Comments to the FCC by Specter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?na tive_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6513391850

    Jared