Senate Questions Broadcast Flag
A couple of days ago, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the Broadcast Flag and the RIAA-proposed Audio Flag. Surprisingly, committee chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) asked some key questions that exposed holes in the arguments for this “anti-piracy” technology. First up, Sununu (from an EFF Deeplinks article):
“The suggestion is that if we don’t do this, it will stifle creativity. Well…we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development…new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation…why would we think that this one special time, we’re going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?”
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