[Community_studios] Sunday's article on DTV

tompoe at renonevada.net tompoe at renonevada.net
Sun Aug 11 13:53:22 EDT 2002


Hi, Corley: One of the best of the best, sir. Your article in the Reno 
Gazette Journal about having DTV shoved down our throats [my impression] 
was excellent.
In case you want my opinion, here's a taste:
http://www.linuxtv.org/

You see, they know that TV broadcast programs now require only some 
$20,000 to set up, and create identical quality to what the big guys do. 
That means, you and I can create programs and sell them, or simply 
register them in the Public Domain, and the big guys [how many are 
there?] have to compete.  However, force the broadcast flag down our 
throats, and they cut off the competition, just like they're doing with 
the webcasting on the Internet, eh?

A small group of us have started Open Studios, and directed it squarely 
at the RIAA and Hollywood. We offer musicians and artists free recording 
services. Then, they can use the Internet to build audiences and make 
tours and stuff, without the big guys.  You know, after the model of the 
Grateful Dead.

In a year or so, we're going to do the same for TV, and force the 
manufacturers to do the logical thing.

They don't need to do the broadcast flag. They need to simply require 
the manufacturers to make it possible for folks to choose the public tv 
switch or the private tv switch.  It can be that easy. Open Source makes 
it possible to have an explosion of quality DTV programs, without 
"protecting" the big guys. So, you see, it's some two-bit criminals in 
Hollywood trying to snuff out our precious public domain.  Open Studios 
won't stand for it, and neither should the public stand for this 
terrible assault on our precious public domain.

Did I mention we're really pushing to replenish our precious public 
domain that Hollywood and the RIAA are stealing from us? <grin>
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
Reno, NV
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