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The FCC, PTC And Bogus Indecency Counts
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| Three years ago, we wrote about the "roller coaster" of
| indecency complaints to the FCC. Basically, there are very,
| very few indecency complaints, until one particular
| organization alerts its members to all complain at once. What's
| silly is that the FCC is often influenced by this, even though
| most of the people complaining never actually saw the TV
| content in question. What's even sillier is that the FCC
| apparently (very quietly) changed its process to make it easier
| for this group to stuff the ballots.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090911/0257326163.shtml
Recent:
Broadband stimulus and the FCC's Internet policy statement
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| This week's hoopla over at the Federal Communications Commission focused on
| the launching of a Notice of Inquiry that is seeking comment on a National
| Broadband Plan, which the agency must produce for Congress by February of
| 2010. "If we do our job well," interim FCC Chair Michael Copps told an Open
| Commission meeting audience on Wednesday, "this will be the most formativeâ
| indeed transformativeâproceeding ever in the Commissionâs history."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/broadband-stimulus-and-the-fccs-internet-policy-statement.ars
Reboot the FCC
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| The solution here is not tinkering. You can't fix DNA. You have to bury it.
| President Obama should get Congress to shut down the FCC and similar
| vestigial regulators, which put stability and special interests above the
| public good. In their place, Congress should create something we could call
| the Innovation Environment Protection Agency (iEPA), charged with a simple
| founding mission: "minimal intervention to maximize innovation." The iEPA's
| core purpose would be to protect innovation from its two historical enemiesâ
| excessive government favors, and excessive private monopoly power.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/176809
My comment to the FCC on DRM
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| DRM is a disaster for everyone involved with it, because it cannot do what it
| claims but imposes large costs in the process of failing. The people who have
| sold DRM technologies to Big Media are frauds playing on the ignorance of
| media executives, and both the media companies and the consumer have suffered
| greatly and unnecessarily as a result.
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| DRM cannot do what it claims for at least three reasons. First, pirates
| readily bypass it by duplicating physical media. Second, DRM algorithms
| cannot âseeâ any data that the host device does not present to them; thus,
| they can always be spoofed by a computer emulating an environment in which
| the DRM algorithm thinks release is authorized. Third, for humans to view or
| hear the content it must at some point exit the digital realm of DRM to a
| screen and speakers; re-capturing the data stream at that point bypasses any
| possible protections.
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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=734
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