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New bill will make analog VCRs and TVs illegal in 2006. Rep. Billy Tauzin has released a "discussion draft" of a bill to be introduced this session that will ensure that the Broadcast Flag mandate will come to pass. The Broadcast Flag is a ridiculous bit of anti-freedom policy that allows a video signal to tell receivers, "Don't let me be copied." The bill will require every device that can be used as a receiver -- including general-purpose PCs -- to employ only "approved" technologies. Moreover, this particular bill goes even farther, requiring that all analog-outputting TV devices be discontinued by 2006: that's right, your TV, VCR, camcorder, DVD player, and TiVo will all be obsolete in 2006. Hello, landfill! Here's a link to Digital Consumer's one-pager on the bill. Link Discuss (Thanks, Joe!) [Boing Boing Blog]
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FastCompany: Hit Man.. An interesting article about HBO's original programming success of the last few years. It illustrates the advantages media companies who's customers are their audience, instead of advertisers, have in creating good stuff—and, therefore, getting the audience that everyone craves in the first place. [evhead]
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This is my new blogchalk:
United States, Minnesota, Bloomington, West, English, Clarence, Male, 51-55. :)
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© Copyright 2003 Clarence Westberg.
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This is my blogchalk:
United States, Minnesota, Bloomington, West, English, Clarence, Male, 51-55.
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