...and start reading this.
it's the EFF's Broadcast Protection Discussion Group blog -- the only way you and i get a look inside this "open" process for determining your right to privacy and fair use, right in your living room.
the BPDG is a "consensus-building" body of Big Content heavyweights and technology companies working on ensuring Hollywood survives the transition to digital television with its century-old, scarcity-based revenue model intact. their recommendations will become the sneaky, back-door, undemocratic way that legislation like the SSSCA/CBDTPA comes into being. (via bOingbOing)
