EFF: DeepLinks
You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio? You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent new TV and radio gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same way the pioneers behind the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did?
Well, that's not what the entertainment industry has in mind. According to them, here's all tomorrow's innovators should be allowed to offer you:
"customary historic use of broadcast content by consumers to the extent such use is consistent with applicable law."
In other words, Big Content would like their lapdogs in Congress to literally freeze time and halt any change in technology, business models, or regulatory environment that might cause them to change one iota of the way they do business. The grumpy old men in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, London, Washington, and Guetersloh like things just the way they are, thank you very much.
