Broadcast Flag lowered?
One of my pet peeves is “sledgehammer to kill a fly” laws. In other words, laws that can cause far more damage than the wrong it is supposed to right.
In my view the US Broadcast flag is one of those. It is intended as an anti-piracy mechanism for digital TV, but many fear it will do far more harm than good.
The rule said every product sold in the US after July 2005 that can receive digital TV must be able to recognize a “broadcast flag.”
An appeals court is now questioning whether the FCC had authority to do that.
