more on Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee Communications Bill

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
Date: June 19, 2006 2:28:48 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee  
Communications Bill

At 11:29 AM 6/19/2006, Drew Clark wrote:

> A copy of Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Steven's new telecom
> legislation is available -- and it keeps growing. What started out as
> 135 pages on May 1 grew to 151 pages in the June 9 draft that was
> released on June 12. This third draft -- dated June 16 and expected
> to be officially unveiled in a 10 a.m. briefing on Capitol Hill --
> tops off at 151 pages.

It's also worth noting that this new version makes an end run around
recent court decisions by specifically enabling the FCC to mandate
the "broadcast flag." This flag is intended to prevent recording or
time-shifting of audio and video programming.

--Brett Glass



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