[DMCA-Activists] Re: IP: FCC INITIATES RULEMAKING TO EXPLORE DIGITALCOPYRIGHT PROTECTION --- note deadlines

[Seth Johnson]

Eek.  You think?  :-)

Eh.  Well, I may look the fool, then.  I slip sometimes.  I
think it comes from a part of me that tries to take it easy
sometimes -- even as we all know how important it is to be
careful (!).  I don't normally put out tricky messages like
this one.  And then you see what happens?  Ah well.  LOL

Seth


Kevin Marks wrote:
> 
> They are using 'programmers' in the TV industry sense of
> 'people who decide what the masses will watch when'. The
> ones that old TiVo ad showed being defenstrated.
> 
> On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 08:47 AM, Seth Johnson wrote:
> > This NPRM is for *digital TV.*  It's really bizarre how this
> > summary incorporates an appeal to *programmers* who may be
> > "reluctant to distribute content in the absence of an
> > effective scheme to prevent unauthorized copying and
> > redistribution of digital media."  It's so carefully pitched
> > to divide and conquer the constituency most literate in
> > issues of information freedom -- even though the NPRM in
> > question doesn't apply to software code.
> >
> > As Jerry Brown once said:  This is truly bizarre.

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