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	Broadcast flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A broadcast flag is a set of status bits (or "flags") sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content.
		The stated intention of the broadcast flag was to prevent copyright infringement, but many have asserted that broadcast flags interfere with the fair use rights of the viewing public.
		Flagged content must be output only to "protected outputs" such as HDMI ports, or in degraded form through analog outputs or digital outputs with visual resolution of 720x480 pixels (EDTV) or less.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadcast_flag (958 words)

	EFF: Television Liberation Digital Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a unanimous decision, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the broadcast flag.
		The Demodulator Compliance Requirements insisted that all HDTV demodulators must listen for the flag (or assume it to be present in all signals).
		Flagged content must be output only to "protected outputs" or in degraded form: through analog outputs or digital outputs with visual resolution of 720x480 pixels or less--less than 1/4 of HDTV's capability.
	www.eff.org /broadcastflag (840 words)

	The Importance of...: The Broadcast Flag Treaty - Draft Available
		It will give broadcasters, not copyright holders but broadcasters, a number of exclusive rights in their broadcasts, such as fixation, reproduction and distribution, whether or not the broadcast is of a public domain work.
		Broadcasting organizations shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorizing the direct or indirect reproduction, in any manner or form, of fixations of their broadcasts.
		Broadcasting organizations shall have the right to prohibit the distribution to the public and importation of reproductions of unauthorized fixations of their broadcasts.
	importance.corante.com /archives/002925.html (2116 words)

	Broadcast flag: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		High-definition television (hdtv) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (ntsc, secam, pal)...
		The stated intention of the broadcast flag is to prevent copyright infringement copyright infringement quick summary:
		Flagged content must be output only to "protected outputs" such as HDMI[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] ports, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/broadcast_flag.htm (1942 words)

	Broadcast Flag: Media Industry May Try to Steal the Law
		Broadcast Flag is this contraption that the media conglomerates got the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require on all future television sets and recording devices.
		Broadcast Flag was a foregone conclusion, a one-sided collusion between the media industry and the FCC.
		It will be the committee and not the entire Senate that will vote if Broadcast Flag can be part of the bill, a decision made without debate or evidence from an opposing side.
	www.mp3newswire.net /stories/5002/broadcastflag.html (567 words)

	ALA \| Broadcast Flag
		In November 2003, the FCC issued broadcast flag copyright protection rules that were to go into effect in 2005.
		Digital broadcasters would mark, or “flag,” a transmission by embedding a protective code, and then a broadcast flag reader on the receiving device would restrict the ability to re-transmit the content, including through the Internet.
		Library associations and public interest groups were concerned that the flag would unfairly restrict legitimate copying and use of broadcast content and sued the FCC, alleging among other things that the FCC lacked the statutory authority to issue the broadcast flag order.
	www.ala.org /ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/broadcastflag/broadcastflag.htm (1298 words)

	EPIC Comments on the FCC Broadcast Flag
		However, the efficacy of the broadcast flag in facilitating the transition process is dubious. A regulatory copy protection regime is not necessary to expand the current DTV transition. CBS, for instance, recently announced that it will develop programming for DTV.
		Copy protection technologies based on the broadcast flag could potentially implicate important privacy interests. Since the BPDG report fails to specify the compliance and robustness requirements for approved devices, it leaves the door open to the incorporation of privacy-invasive technologies into devices which handle DTV content.
		While the purpose of the Commission's broadcast flag mandate is to provide incentives for content providers to invest in digital broadcasting, the restrictions it would impose on consumers and the potentially privacy-invasive applications of the flag could work against this goal. Consumers generally avoid products that are inconvenient or invasive.
	www.epic.org /privacy/drm/broadcastflagcomments.html (799 words)

	Build your TV - San Francisco Bay Guardian News
		Even more disturbing, the Broadcast Flag mandates that recording devices be "robust against user modification." In plain language, that means consumers can't repair, tinker with, or optimize their own machines.
		The full impact of the flag won't be felt for several years, when most broadcasts are in HD and most people have chucked their VCRs.
		All three acknowledged that the flag seemed unnecessary to ease the nation's transition to HDTV –; one even remarked that this was as ridiculous as the FCC attempting to regulate washing machines.
	www.sfbg.com /39/22/cover_fcc.html (3587 words)

	USATODAY.com - Why striking down the broadcast flag was important (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The court's ruling struck down the "broadcast flag," something the FCC had mandated back in November 2003, and that was to take effect this July.
		Even though the broadcast flag only applied to over-the-air digital signals, not cable or satellite, it was important that the regulation be shot down as quickly as possible.
		By mandating the broadcast flag, the FCC was claiming jurisdiction over any device that could not only receive a broadcast, but also any device that could process it as well — a TiVo, for example.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-05-13-fcc-ruling_x.htm (1089 words)

	Consensus at Lawyerpoint
		The FCC has extended the deadline for filing reply comments about the broadcast flag to February 18, granting in part the request of the library associations for this extension.
		The broadcast flag, currently a somewhat exotic regulatory proposal in the U.S., would be the norm in all countries which adopted this treaty, and they would be required by law to prevent "circumvention" of broadcast flag-like measures.
		The NPRM seeks public comment on a variety of issues related to the broadcast flag proposals, including whether the broadcast flag is necessary, whether it would be effective, whether the Commission should mandate it, and what effects it would have on various parties.
	bpdg.blogs.eff.org (3989 words)

	Corante > The Bottom Line > Broadcast Flag This
		For anyone who misses broadcast television, it would be better to give them taxpayer dollars to subscribe to satellite TV than for consumers to pay the Broadcast Flag hardware tax.
		There is currently no broadcast flag on traditional analog broadcasts and I'm allowed to tape for later listening or viewing pleasure and share these tapes with like minded friends on a non-commercial basis.
		Guess what, hackers will easily be able to defeat this flag, it will be non-tech savy ordinary citizens that will be hurt by a flag when for some reason their new $2k HDTV set won't play legit DVD's or old vhs personal movies due to flag issues.
	www.corante.com /bottomline/archives/000589.html (1634 words)

	PCWorld.com - FCC's Broadcast Flag Overturned
		A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission's controversial broadcast flag mandate today, ruling unanimously that the FCC acted outside the scope of its authority when it adopted broadcast flag regulations.
		Set to take effect this July, the broadcast flag would have mandated that any device capable of receiving a digital TV signal would have to respect a flag that would limit your ability to record and copy that program.
		With the broadcast flag out of commission for the moment, the FCC and the broadcast industry have several options: The FCC could appeal or the broadcasters and content owners pushing for the flag could ask Congress to mandate copy protection technology with a new law or to delegate that power to the FCC.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,120748,00.asp (721 words)

	Politicians want to raise broadcast flag \| CNET News.com
		Twenty members of Congress are calling for the reinstatement of the "broadcast flag," a controversial form of copy prevention technology for digital TV broadcasts.
		In a letter Thursday, the politicians called for rapid approval of a federal law adopting the broadcast flag, which would outlaw over-the-air digital TV receivers and computer tuner cards that don't follow strict anticopying standards.
		No legislation has advanced in either the House or the Senate, but opponents of the broadcast flag have been warning that the proposal could be attached to spending bills.
	news.com.com /Politicians+...+broadcast+flag/2100-1028_3-5886722.html (837 words)

	CDT \| Broadcast Flag
		The "broadcast flag" - a method for protecting digital television broadcasts - has emerged as one of the first major debates over government mandates for DRM copy protections.
		CDT Urges Caution on Broadcast Flag at Senate Hearing - CDT today warned lawmakers that imposing a "broadcast flag" regime to protect copyrighted video content would involve significant government regulation of technology design and would carry risks to both technology innovation and legal consumer uses of digital television.
		The debate over the flag scheme is now likely to move to Congress, whose authorization would be needed to revive the rules.
	www.cdt.org /copyright/broadcastflag (592 words)

	Broadcast Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is expected that proponents of the broadcast flag rule such as the Motion Picture Association of America will look to Congress to implement the broadcast flag regulation via legislation.
		On November 4, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it would require "the adoption of broadcast flag technology in television receivers and related equipment by [July] 2005." A broadcast flag is a signal imbedded in digital content that can interact with digital devices that have been engineered to recognize it.
		The decision was a disappointment to the library community who urged the FCC not to adopt a broadcast flag rule last December.
	www.arl.org /info/frn/copy/DRMBFR.html (637 words)

	M of A - Broadcast Flag
		The flag is intended to prevent the "indiscriminate" transmission over IP networks of copyrighted digital content.
		The flag itself represents a series of bits, several of which define the descriptor tag and length with others reserved for "optional additional redistribution control information that may be defined in the future."
		Given that the FCC also cares for Obscenity, Indecency, and Profanity it is easy to imagine that in future the "digital broadcast" of the content of this blog - without an FCC approved broadcast flag - may not reach your PC or, if it does, may not be displayed.
	www.moonofalabama.org /2004/11/broadcast_flag.html (1238 words)

	p2pnet.net - Broadcast Flag - to be, or not to be? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Broadcast Flag reared its ugly head early this summer while US Senator Fritz Hollings was trying to pass (and you can take that any way you want ;) his anti-piracy bill.
		Broadcast Flag is, "really the same model for what's already been happening on the video side," CNET News.com quoted RIAA senior vice president of government relations Mitch Glazier as saying.
		On Broadcast Flag, once more, a July 15 Reuters story said, "Rep. Billy Tauzin, who chairs the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, said his staff has begun to prepare a comprehensive bill that would resolve questions swirling around the new medium, hoping free, over-the-air digital broadcasts would become commonplace before too long.
	www.p2pnet.net /issue06/lead.html (3103 words)

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		When the MPAA tried a similar move in June—tacking the broadcast flag on to appropriations legislation—they failed once the word got out about what it was they were trying to accomplish.
		When the flag was first mandated by the FCC in 2003, the reasoning behind it was speeding the adoption of digital TV.
		What is truly at the heart of the broadcast flag is broadcasters' ability to control content after it has left the airwaves and entered your living room.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20050927-5354.html (517 words)

	Consensus at Lawyerpoint: MPAA FAQ on Broadcast Flag
		The group was formed specifically for the purpose of evaluating the suitability of the broadcast flag for protecting DTV content and to determine whether there was substantial support for the flag.
		MPAA answer: The Broadcast Flag was created by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which is the standards-setting organization that developed the technical specifications for digital television in the U.S. EFF comment: The broadcast flag was created by Fox, and subsequently ratified by ATSC as an optional part of ATSC's standards.
		The only intent of the broadcast flag is to restrict the unauthorized redistribution of broadcast content in order to insure that high value content will be made available to consumers over free TV and not confined to subscription services.
	bpdg.blogs.eff.org /archives/000148.html (3158 words)

	DRM Watch: FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Regulation
		The Federal Communications Commission, as expected, approved on Tuesday its "Broadcast Flag" regulation for protecting content on digital broadcast television.
		Under the regulation, TV broadcasters will be able to mark content with a flag that indicates that the content is forbidden from being copied in digital form after a consumer receives it on a digital TV set-top box.
		Under the ruling, digital TV set-top boxes will be required to recognize the flag and activate some sort of copy-protection mechanism, which will prevent perfect digital copies of the content being made.
	www.drmwatch.com /legal/article.php/3105301 (609 words)

	Infothought: Broadcast Flag - desecration
		"Do not remove this flag under penalty of law" The Broadcast Flag is now law, per the FCC ruling.
		The Broadcast Flag is now law, per the FCC ruling.
		What annoys me most about the broadcast flag is the mixing of levels.
	sethf.com /infothought/blog/archives/000466.html (1132 words)

	Will the broadcast flag break your TiVo? By Paul Boutin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unless the broadcasters have a way to protect content, they won't be able to license or purchase shows, and if they don't have access to the shows, they won't be able to compete with cable and the satellite-TV folks.
		One of the biggest myths about the broadcast flag is that TV networks are pushing the flag to end time-shifting and to force viewers to watch the commercials.
		Hopefully new DVD players will be rejigged to accommodate the broadcast flag so you can record a show in your living room and play it in your bedroom, but it's not yet clear how (or whether) that will work.
	www.slate.com /id/2091723 (1182 words)

	Hollywood to the computer industry: We don't need no stinking Napsters! \| Salon.com
		It's precisely because the flag seems, on the surface, so innocuous that the studios are having an easy time pushing it to regulators in Washington.
		If adopted, such a rule is sure to cause a great deal of hand-wringing in the PC industry, which is, increasingly, counting on the convergence between entertainment and computing to push sales.
		This, critics say, illustrates the real danger posed by the broadcast flag; if the mandate were just another rule governing TVs, the flag wouldn't be very objectionable.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2003/10/27/broadcast_flag/index.html (628 words)

	Public Knowledge - Broadcast Flag Court Challenge
		Content companies are asking members of Congress to give the FCC the authority to order the broadcast flag scheme that the court order said the Commission did not have.
		Steptoe and Johnson, a top-tier Washington, DC law firm with expertise in FCC matters generally and the broadcast flag matter specifically, agreed to litigate the case on behalf of Public Knowledge and the other parties seeking to challenge the FCC decision.
		Congress Asked to Keep Broadcast Flag Off Of Spending Bill: Several non-profit organizations, public-interest groups and corporate representatives today asked members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to oppose any attempts to give the Federal Communications Commission permission to reinstate the “broadcast flag” regulations.
	www.publicknowledge.org /issues/bfcase (688 words)

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