[BC] FCC's broadcast flag: It's back?

[Stu Engelke]

May 13, 2005, 6:21 AM PDT
FCC's broadcast flag: It's back?

The broadcast flag could be raised again.

Less than a week after a federal appeals court nixed the Federal 
Communications Commission's plan to forcibly implant anti-copying 
technology into digital TV tuners, Hollywood appears to be turning to 
Congress for some legislative aid.

Advocacy group Public Knowledge, which sued to challenge the FCC's 
broadcast flag, says it has obtained a copy of the Motion Picture 
Association of America's draft legislation.

The draft bill says, simply, that the FCC will "ha.................

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