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Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo

Posted by Zonk on from the hilarity-ensues dept.

blamanj wrote to mention that, a week after we reported on the court rejection of the broadcast flag, the MPAA is working on new legislation to broaden the FCC's power. From the article: "The draft bill says, simply, that the FCC will 'have authority to adopt regulations governing digital television apparatus necessary to control the indiscriminate redistribution of digital television broadcast content over digital networks.' The DC Circuit nixed the flag on the grounds that the FCC didn't have the authority. This language would clear that up." Update: 05/13 19:20 GMT by Z : Title amended with apologies to the Bugaloos.

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  1. Obligatory by Tx · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    How appropriate.

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  2. Legislative body by zoward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... the MPAA is working on new legislation to broaden the FCC's power"

    I didn't know the MPAA was a legislative body ...

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    1. Re:Legislative body by thephotoman · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're fooling yourselves! We're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

      (gets cut off by female companion)

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  3. Electric Boogaloo Jokes are Deader than Dillinger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    the official sequel joke is now "The Secret of Curley's Gold"

    As you were

  4. Government Logic by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > The DC Circuit nixed the flag on the grounds that the FCC didn't have the authority. This language would clear that up.

    1. Anything not nailed down is mine.
    2. Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.
    3. If the only tool you have is a crowbar, every problem looks like hours and hours of fun!

    Of course we can get along just fine with the software industry. TCPA, DRM, Steam, Valve, Half-Life, Crowbar. It all makes sense now!

  5. Wow, didn't see THAT coming by smchris · · Score: 2, Funny


    I still think they would rather hold off until fall of '08 to blame Clinton and the Democrats for requiring a new TV in every trailer.

  6. Bare with me... by bhsx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going for a new meme here:
    My mom washed the broadcast flag, and it BLEW UP!

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  7. Re:Just because they're out to get you by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Citizen, the State thanks you for voluntarily reporting desecration of the flag. Please report to the nearest vaporization facility immediately.

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  8. with apologies to Mel Brooks... by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Fellow members of the American Senate, hear me! Shall we continue to give hand-out after hand-out to the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and draft decent legislation for the poor? How does the Senate vote?"

    [in unison] "F**k the poor!"

    "Good!"

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  9. Re:harder this time by samkass · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree. However, it started out as Eldred v Reno, so it's an equal-opportunity sell-out by our government to Disney.

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