Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders

mjdroner writes "ZD-Net has the latest on a sweeping telecom bill in the Senate. The bill provides no support for net neutrality. The bill does, however, include a provision to authorize the FCC to outlaw digital receivers that record broadcasts. The article states that those receivers would be replaced with devices that treat anything with an audio broadcast flag as copy-protected."

Bill again!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders

Is there anything Bill wouldn't either outlaw or make compulsory? I'm getting really sick of that guy.

Sing along!

[truthsearch]

The Fellas At The Freakin' FCC Song

Peter: They will clean up all your talking in a matter such as this
Brian: They will make you take a tinkle when you want to take a p*ss
Stewie: And they'll make you call fellatio a trouser-friendly kiss
Peter, Brian, & Stewie: It's the plain situation!
There's no negiotiation!
Peter: With the fellows at the freakin FCC!

Brian: They're as stuffy as the stuffiest of the special interest groups...
Peter: Make a joke about your bowels and they order in the troops
Stewie: Any baby with a brain could tell them everybody poops!
Peter, Brian, & Stewie: Take a tip, take a lesson!
You'll never win by messin'
Peter: With the fellas at the freakin' FCC

And if you find yourself with some you sexy thing
You're gonna have to do her with your ding-a-ling
Cause you can't say penis!

So they sent this little warning they're prepared to do the worst
Brian: And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be co-erced
Stewie: I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first!

Peter, Brian, & Stewie: They may just be neurotic
Or possible psychotic
They're the fellas at the freakin FCC!

Re:New equipment for free?

[fm6]

It's easier to confiscate electronics than firearms. Well, less risky, anyway.

Re:New equipment for free?

[slashname3]

If/when they come knocking on my door looking for my mythtv box they will wish they had confiscated the guns first. Without doing that first it will be much more dangerous to try and confiscate the electronics.

It's not all bad actually

[fishdan]

For those who didn't read the article: the bill does say ...Americans should enjoy the right to share recorded broadcast TV over their home networks, make "short excerpts" available over the Internet, and that news programming generally should not be flagged...

Holy Crap! They actualy agree that I should be able to share recorded TV shows over my home networks? That has got to be the most reasonable thing I've seen from the gov't in AGES. It's got to be a mistake on their part right?

Re:Bill again!

[JonnyCalcutta]

That must be Bill Posters. He's banned from most empty buildings round here.

Sticking babies on pikes

[kitzilla]

When some clever corporation figures out a way to turn a profit by sticking babies on pikes, a pliant US Congress stands ready to make it legal -- and to keep private citizens from doing it themselves.

All the actual baby piking will be done overseas by non-union workers, of course.

Re:It's not all bad actually

[Soul-Burn666]

How about this. 100 people make a disjoint set of short excerpts of some movie/tv show and share it over the Internet and then a system to automatically download all these excerpts!

loophole.

Re:Bill again!

[Dorceon]

He's probably sitting on the steps of Capitol Hill. Maybe you can defeat him with a Schoolhouse Rock to the head.

Hrrrmrmmm.....

[rebelcan]

Am I the only one that thought the article summary was talking about this Bill [microsoft.com]?

Re:you know the drill

[Rob the Bold]

You might consider including a "contribution". They consider requests made without cash to be shoplifting (or worse, piracy).

Re:If you didn't vote Libertarian, you ASKED for t

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. Do those guys have a government permit to burn all that straw?

Re:It's not all bad actually

[Feanturi]

short excerpts of some movie/tv show and share it over the Internet and then a system to automatically download all these excerpts!

I believe they call that BitTorrent.

Re:you know the drill

[Kadin2048]

I recommend enclosing a nubile young intern with your letter, but the postage can get a little expensive. Works wonders, though.