ProphecyBoy

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May 6th 2005
Tags: Exploded Media, Politics

Ding Dong the Flag is Dead!

Astounding good news: the DC Court of Appeals just bitchslapped the FCC and the MPAA for trying to break our TVs. The broadcast flag, which would regulate recording, moving, or copying digital broadcasts, is now dead in the water. The court did a great job, specifying that regulating the non-broacast features of a device was beyond the FCC’s scope, and that specific legislation would have to be adopted by Congress to give them that ability if the broadcast flag is to live on. Since no congressperson wants to be responsible for breaking their constituents’ TVs, this is highly unlikely. Which means we win, scraping in just under the July 1st deadline.

Also: BoingBoing razzes the FCC

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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