Broadcast Flag at Half Mast?

Key lawmaker says he opposes adding a copy-protection scheme to digital TV bill, handing the movie industry another setback in anti-piracy plans. By Michael Grebb.

WASHINGTON -- A key lawmaker has complicated the movie industry's push for a law to restrict consumers' ability to redistribute digital TV content over peer-to-peer networks and the internet at large.

Motion Picture Association of America Executive Vice President John Feehery on Wednesday confirmed that Barton told the MPAA he doesn't support broadcast-flag provisions in his bill, but Feehery said the group hasn't determined its next course of action. ...

Source: Wired News