A key U.S. Senate panel on Thursday decided not to intervene in a long-simmering dispute over the "broadcast flag," a form of copy prevention technology for digital TV broadcasts. ¶ At a meeting reserved for voting on spending bills, not one member of the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed an amendment authorizing federal regulators to mandate the broadcast flag. ... Link: CNET News.com.
Here's a clue as to why. Link: Electronic Frontier Foundation. --Dennis
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