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[tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>]

Hi: Well, looks like the boys and girls at the DRM meeting panicked!

I'll bet 'ya that the activist turnout at the DRM meeting on Wednesday, 
was responsible for this.  What do you think?  I really wonder if 
Hollings hasn't gone over the other line, you know, the one that 
qualifies for immediate rubber-room entry.  If I'm a Senator or Congress 
Rep, I'm wondering why I wasn't asked about this. This is as bad as the 
"secret whitehouse" justification.
Thanks,
tom
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Hollings: Broadcast flag now, by FCC mandate

EFF was advised that Sen. Ernest Hollings has written a letter to the 
FCC advocating immediate implementation of a broadcast flag mandate -- 
even without additional legislation. Hollings apparently claimed that 
the FCC already has, under existing statutes, the authority necessary to 
require that all manufacturers comply with BPDG rules.

We hope to have the text of the letter available soon.

Sen. Hollings is also the author of the "Consumer Broadband and Digital 
Television Promotion Act" (CBDTPA) -- often ridiculed as "Consume, But 
Don't Try Programming Anything". (EFF takes Disney and other 
entertainment companies to task for their support of such legislation.)
Posted by Seth Schoen at 05:10 PM
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Hollywood's BPDG Group ?!?
        Never heard of them. What did they do in technology
except manage to put on their tie without accidentaly killing
themselves ?!?
[ modified quote from  dm AT zensunni.demon.nl ]
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