Yet another attempt to get broadcast flags enshrined in law is coming up this week. Take action to stop them, please.
What is the problem with the broadcast flag and audio flag, you ask? Simple – they don’t do anything worthwhile and are an obstruction to technological progress. If you’re a Republican, do you believe in more governmental regulation or do you believe in letting the market decide? Well, broadcast flag legislation protects one business model to the exlusion of letting the market decide. If you’re a Democrat, do you believe in the government bowing to the orders of large corporations? Well, the broadcast flag legislation exists only because of the efforts of the entertainment industry, not due to any grassroots campaign from actual individual citizens.
All these flags and the PERFORM Act do is stop innovation. They make it so that the United States will remain the technology ghetto of the world. We keep our recording devices at the same technological level as analog cassette tape in the 21st Century. What the hell? Read Engadget sometime – every day there is some new piece of audio or video gadgetry that will never arrive in the United States, because the Asians don’t have retarded laws protecting the RIAA and MPAA from competition. It’s like we went back in time and killed the Ford automobile because buggy whip makers were pissed off. Absurd now, isn’t it? Yet you know that the buggy whip makers were campaigning for just such a thing at the time. Why let the RIAA and MPAA tell you that you can’t record what you want on your stereo or television? Why let the recording industry control your electronics? Do your elected representatives represent you or Hollywood?
Is it strange that my random playlist generator created a list with “Crazy Bitch” and “You Can’t Fool Me” and “American Witch” in one hour?
Buckcherry’s Crazy Bitch rocks, by the way.
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
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