JOEL JOHNSON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has joined with other group to protest the FCC ’s decision to postulate the ‘ broadcast flag ’ — essentially a signal telling your future VCR or PVR not to enter — to be discern and enforce in all consumer technology by July 1 , 2005 . If result unopposed , the broadcast flag would reserve media company to determine what the closing - user could or could not put down for later viewing , violating what many see as ‘ fair habit . ’
The FCC has responded with an attack to set back the lawsuit pending internal decisions to ‘ reconsider ’ the mandate , but since this seems to be mostly a stalling tactic and not a genuine rethinking of the determination , the EFF and ally have pushed to hinder the postponement .
If you care about your power to practice your future purchases in the way you want to use them , it would n’t hurt to turn back out and support the actions and design of the EFF .
Cory added this clarification : The pernicious issue is n’t that the FCC is going to require a signaling restricting copying , it ’s that for protect that signal , they ’re going to require that inventor get government and Hollywood approval before delivering new DTV technology , and will be outlawing open generator for use in critical DTV applications .
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