MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag

Thomas Hawk writes "Motion Picture Association of America head Dan Glickman has an opinion piece up at CNET explaining why, even after they and the FCC lost the legal case to force the Broadcast Flag on us, we should still as consumers be advocates for it. The gist of Glickman's argument boils down to the old 'we're taking our ball and going home' game as he tries to convince us that without this incentive good TV and movies won't get shown on broadcast television. 'Our companies want to continue to show their movies and television shows to viewers who don't or can't subscribe to cable or satellite systems. But without the broadcast flag, that option will look less and less appealing. In the end, it will be the consumers who suffer the most if the broadcast flag is not mandated for the digital era.'"

Comments

Why the broadcast flag won't work

[CHESTER COPPERPOT]

An opposing piece by tech attorney Jim Burger.

Re:Who's content is it?

[Anonymous Coward]

And frankly the only reason this ridiculous situation even exists is because the movie industry (and music industry) is effectively a monopoly.

It's a cartel.

Taking their marbles

[overshoot]

I'm sure that without the broadcast flag they will stop showing movies on television. After all, we need their movies more than they need the revenue.

</sarcasm> for those who need the hint.

Remember what happened with the original Circuit City DivX? The MPAA told CC the same thing: without strong hardware encryption, there was no way they would allow their movies to go to market on DVD. Contrary to /. legend, DivX didn't die from consumer rebellion, it died from lack of content because all the movies were on plain DVD, not DivX.

Re:Who's content is it?

[NetNifty]

The EU introduced the EUCD which is similer to the DMCA.