Background/original story: NBC “accidentally” distributed American Gladiators with the Broadcast Flag turned on.
EFF podcast/discussion:
I’m talking about traveling back in time to late 2005 when the ‘net was buzzing - angrily—about a Cartel proposal to require DRM to be embedded in every broadcast signal. The end of ‘free’ TV? No more time-shifting allowed? You remember that.
In the end, the Cartel got half a pie. There’s a flag, but the FCC explicitly stated that it wasn’t supposed to prevent home recording. Even “redistributing it within the home or similar personal environment as consistent with copyright law” is allowed.
The EFF’s Broadcast Flag issue page.
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