Another Fair Use Victory: Broadcast Flag Mandate Halted

[theknife]

no chit, drak

John Dvorak in PC Mag has a good take on the real issue here:

The value of the broadcast flag is apparent. It was to create a new conduit for distributing of movies and special-events programming that would defeat any time-switching or other legitimate consumer desires. It's really not about the Internet and piracy, as everyone claims. Piracy and Internet distribution will not be stopped by this technology. This is a red herring.

the rest is here and well worth reading