What Critics of the Critics of the FCC Rule Miss

Asprin writes "Businessweek has an editorial up which argues that the FCC's HDTV broadcast flag rule is a good thing, and that everyone is just overreacting. What the author is overlooking is that this rule gives exclusive control over production to the studios that are in "the club", essentially denying private citizens the right to make their own HDTV format video. To wit: "The problem comes when a program taped on an old VCR can't be replayed on a next-generation VCR. So consumers may experience some compatibility problems between machines as they upgrade." Awww, she almost gets it. (...and she was sooo close, too!) The problem is the word "consumers", which doesn't describe us anymore. There's nothing like being locked out of your own old family videos when your current VCR dies, eh?"

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[DogShitSantaTr0ll]

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Re:Just like...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got some "family" videos of the kids I'd like to trade. Anyone in the lifestyle interested?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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One more thing

[Pan T. Hose]

I'm sure (or at least, I hope) I won't be the only one who will raise this very issue, but organizations like FCC or KRRiTV make absolutely no sense whatsoever in the context of Internet medium, in the opposition to common and finite mediums like ether, which we are forced to manage somehow for the common public good.

Re:Lenin

[DA-MAN]

at some point these goddamn analogies get retarded. We're talking about the RIAA here, NOT bloody rope makers, NOT a company that sells pet rocks, etc. Come on man!