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[My Likes and Dislikes] There are twenty members of Congress who want to give the MPAA and RIAA control over what you watch on your home television. If you think that's a bad idea, read the directions as to how to contact them and let them know how you feel.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Television Archiving: to Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (part of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce), and its ranking member, Edward J. Markey. (via Cosmos)

[SEDHE] Windows Vista requires monitor DRM: The Library of the Future (brought to you by the MPAA) Imagine the DRMed library of the future, every... taking one note every twenty-four minutes, and no more than seven notes per individual book

[Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things] EFF 15th anniversary blog-a-thon: Attorneys General like Ashcroft and Gonzales and industry bullies like the RIAA and MPAA are in a perverse way the best friends a group like EFF could ask for. Insane acts like wiretapping libraries and busting children for downloading make the case for EFF more eloquently than I ever could.

[Scrawford.blogware.com] Susan Crawford blog :: Main Page: MPAA's talking points say that no consumer will be prohibited from copying content, but don't make clear that under the flag scheme flagged DTV content may only be received by devices that (1) use "authorized" content protection technology, (2) connect only with other devices that also use "authorized" technology (thus creating a closed handshake of devices and forcing a lot of consumers to upgrade), and (3) don't allow pieces of that content to be sent out over the internet. There's no limitation in the proposed legislative language to devices that "demodulate" (directly receive and make visible to humans) TV signals.

[Blogs.vbcity.com] Isaiah's Blog: Roughly twenty-five lines, of actually, code can be condensed to one line. Please note that the code above only displays the text received in a text box.

[Blog.teledyn.com] TeledyN: slay the RIAA: My pro-DRM argument here rests on that blogbyte where RIAA members decry Apple's reluctance to share FairPlay, a policy that "makes iPods and the iTunes store incompatible with rival digital music devices and stores" [Slay the iPod] and thereby forces the industry into a single-vendor monopoly distribution channel, all Apple from store-front to ear-plug.