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MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag

Posted by Zonk on from the never-blink-when-you-lie dept.

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.'"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    claimed easily

  2. Hi, I'm cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm so cool, I got fp. :-)

  3. Death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just kill the bastards and get it over with.

    World will be a much happier place with out all the media 'ip issues'.

  4. Re:you can't be serious by zerbot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, the scripts were that bad. They were copying posts from one thread into another quickly enough that it was difficult to actually find the posts that were actually legitimately connected to the topic at hand.

    People with excellent karma appear to not have to deal with it. I think they should extend the same to non-AC posters, or at least those who have been around for awhile.