[Ecommerce] Fwd: Broadcast Flag Hearings torrent

[Manon Ress]

From: tom barger <tbarger@mac.com>
Date: November 6, 2005 1:00:25 PM EST
To: Manon Ress <manon.ress@cptech.org>
Subject: Broadcast Flag Hearings torrent

  Be sure to click on the torrent of the movie file and help lessen
the DL speed.

Woe To The Congressman Who Blows Up your TV
The Hollywood studios marched up to the Hill with legislation in
hand, and drags along the RIAA solution to free radio.

by TOM BARGER

I have offered up the Broadcast Flag Hearings video at this link:
http://torrents.dmusic.com/torrents/br_flag_hearings.mp4.torrent

An excellent way to try out your new video iPod.

This invitation to Internet discussion would seemingly be an example
of the "signal piracy" from which the webcaster giants demand relief
in the Geneva WIPO meetup on Nov. 21. Irony abounds when one
considers that Bainwol and Glickman would be just as happy as I am to
see their testimony disseminated hither and yonder. The works of a
government entity, after all, are in the public domain.

The corporate lawyerly banter about the so-called "analogue hole" is
based on a myth that the speaker outputs, those little red-and-white
RCA plugs, are dripping and draining away America's precious bodily
fluids. A far better explanation, in my opinion, is that
Congressional Representatives put their careers at risk when
Midwestern and Southern voters realize their trusty television sets
and radio receivers longer work.

My own Representative, Rick Boucher (9th-Va.), informed me three
years ago that 60% of our constituents in the Blue Ridge Mountains
still use "rabbit ears" TV antennae. It was his efforts that
clarified the Must-Carry Provisions to ensure that flash-flood
warnings would be available over local satellite and cable.

I was intrigued by two points that Congressman Boucher brought up in
the Broadcast  Flag Hearings. True to old RIAA and MPAA habits, the
Halloween Horror papers were given to Congressional staff the day
before (.pdf and discussion here):

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004106.php#004106

Boucher likes to tell his 81-year old mother of his doings (Dorothy
Boucher was the first female attorney west of Roanoke, Va.) and hopes
she is proud of him. He would not have the ability to email links to
his video appearances if the Broadcast Flag cripples the internet.
And further, Congressman Boucher thinks it's important for his staff
to forward his opponents' TV commercials while he's out on the
campaign trail.

The Broadcast Flag Hearings are stymied the the face of gathering
support of  Rep. Boucher's and Rep. Joe Barton's (6th-Texas) Fair Use
Hearings, in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

On May 12, 2004, an impressive panel of experts to discuss the DMCRA.
For video highlights of the hearings please look at:

http://files.dmusic.com/video/newindex.html







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