[mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out
joe.white at wachovia.com
joe.white at wachovia.com
Fri May 6 15:43:41 UTC 2005
Party at my house! Bring beer!
mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org wrote on 05/06/2005 11:34:56 AM:
> The DC Circuit has ruled in our favor, unanimously throwing out the
> FCC's broadcast flag -- the rule that would have prevented pcHDTV and
> Air2PC from making HDTV tuner cards in the US after July 1.
>
>
<http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200505/04-1037b.pdf>
> "Because the Commission exceeded the scope of its
> delegated authority, we grant the petition for review, and reverse
> and vacate the Flag Order insofar as it requires demodulator
> products manufactured on or after July 1, 2005 to recognize and
> give effect to the broadcast flag."
>
> Next, we'll have to stop the MPAA from going to Congress to get it back.
>
> --Wendy
> --
> --
> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.com || wendy at eff.org
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
> http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/
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