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Main Forums => General Issues => Topic started by: Brent on May 21, 2005, 07:12:32 AM
Tell Congress to reject the Broadcast Flag
Earlier this month, we completely creamed the motion picture studios over the Broadcast Flag, an effort to criminalize open source and win a veto over the design of electronics and PCs. Now they're floating draft legal language on the Hill that would put the entire technology industry under their thumb, turning their friends at the FCC into device-czars with jurisdiction over any technology that could be used to facilitate "indiscriminate redistribution" of movies over the Internet (monitors, PVRs, analog-to-digital converters, hard drives, etc).
EFF has an action-alert you can use to tell your elected law-maker how you feel about this. Just enter your ZIP code and click submit, or better yet, rewrite our form letter to express your outrage in your own words.
A lawmaker who breaks America's televisions and PCs has no business expecting to be re-elected. In fact, such a Congresscritter would be lucky to get away with a mere tarring and feathering.
Send them a letter with this handy form:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr003=mwc9gz7k51.app13b&page=UserAction&cmd=display&id=129