P2P News: Bush signs Hollywood act

Lokie · 01-May-05, 10:11 AM

President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs.

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	The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs. Bush signed it privately and without comment, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. The legislation came about because Hollywood studios and directors had sued to stop the manufacture and distribution of such electronic devices for DVD players. The movies' creators had argued that changing the content _ even when it is considered offensive _ would violate their copyrights. The legislation, called the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, creates an exemption in copyright laws to make sure companies selling filtering technology won't get sued out of existence.

Monsignor Funkibut · 01-May-05, 01:31 PM

Let's see now:

Bush is willing to let us control the content of our TV on one hand [the aforementioned act]

On the other hand

I'm told that as of July 1, it will be impossible to control the content of your HDTV. When the "broadcast" bit is set, you won't be able to fast-forward, pause or do anything else.

So sometimes we control TV and sometimes we don't. Can GW make up his mind?

How about we let people control TV ALL the time.

http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/031113-tk.html
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000893032857/
http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html

-MF

Peng Lord · 01-May-05, 05:00 PM

IIRC, the Supreme Court has ruled that the FCC doesn't have the power to make laws, hence the broadcast flag is not legal. The FCC is only allowed to police the spectrum, not govern hardware manufacture. Unfortunately, many manufacturers have already incorporated the broadcast flag into their equipment...

http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/bfcase

EDIT: looks like the case HASN'T been decided, I thought it had...

carbongraphite · 01-May-05, 06:40 PM

do you really think he understands technology? the new era of digital media delivery is starting off on a corrupt ad ridden foot. soon they wont let us change channels during commercials.

Peng Lord · 06-May-05, 03:39 PM

Update, the broadcast flag is no more!!!
http://news.com.com/Court+says+FCCs+...3-5697719.html

THRASHER2 · 06-May-05, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Peng Lord


	Update, the broadcast flag is no more!!! http://news.com.com/Court+says+FCCs+...3-5697719.html

...Down With broadcast flags...

FunkyFresh · 06-May-05, 04:28 PM

I'm with the prez on this one. I'm all for having the ability to pop in an R-rated movie and select "R", "PG-13", or "PG". The shots/scenes that'd be cut out rarely advance the plot or character development anyway, but the choice to view them would still be there. At least there'd BE a choice.

01-May-05, 01:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
Monsignor Funkibut Master VB Pr'hoe'grammer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Tucker, Ga Posts: 1,856	Hi-tech philosophical quandray Let's see now: Bush is willing to let us control the content of our TV on one hand [the aforementioned act] On the other hand I'm told that as of July 1, it will be impossible to control the content of your HDTV. When the "broadcast" bit is set, you won't be able to fast-forward, pause or do anything else. So sometimes we control TV and sometimes we don't. Can GW make up his mind? How about we let people control TV ALL the time. http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/031113-tk.html http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000893032857/ http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html -MF __________________ The Danse, The Parfum, The Man ..... Last edited by Monsignor Funkibut; 01-May-05 at 01:40 PM. Reason: linkies

01-May-05, 05:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
Peng Lord Apex Tech Maniac Supreme Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mich-HOE-gan Posts: 1,058	IIRC, the Supreme Court has ruled that the FCC doesn't have the power to make laws, hence the broadcast flag is not legal. The FCC is only allowed to police the spectrum, not govern hardware manufacture. Unfortunately, many manufacturers have already incorporated the broadcast flag into their equipment... http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/bfcase EDIT: looks like the case HASN'T been decided, I thought it had... __________________ -Thanks to maskedviperus for the cool sig-

01-May-05, 06:40 PM	#4 (permalink)
carbongraphite Pow - Hoe playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Seattle, WA. Posts: 1,780	do you really think he understands technology? the new era of digital media delivery is starting off on a corrupt ad ridden foot. soon they wont let us change channels during commercials. __________________ "YouÂ’ll do that when I genetically engineer a dragon to ride to work"

06-May-05, 03:39 PM	#5 (permalink)
Peng Lord Apex Tech Maniac Supreme Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Mich-HOE-gan Posts: 1,058	Update, the broadcast flag is no more!!! http://news.com.com/Court+says+FCCs+...3-5697719.html __________________ -Thanks to maskedviperus for the cool sig-

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06-May-05, 04:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
FunkyFresh 'Da Doctor of Funk Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Maine Posts: 3,021	I'm with the prez on this one. I'm all for having the ability to pop in an R-rated movie and select "R", "PG-13", or "PG". The shots/scenes that'd be cut out rarely advance the plot or character development anyway, but the choice to view them would still be there. At least there'd BE a choice.

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