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The broadcast flag that wouldn't die
by Keith McDuffee, posted Jun 21st 2005 10:16AM
The title might sound like another movie I should post on Killer Blog from CyberSpace (shameless plug), though it reflects what's really going on behind the scenes in Congress. The EFF is screaming out warnings that higher-ups in Hollywood have somehow obscured the dreaded broadcast flag into an amendment to a wordy appropriations
bill. Word is the provision will be introduced before
a subcommittee tomorrow and before the full appropriations committee on
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