The End Of Broadcast?

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Temporal Broadcast

Temporal Broadcast 09/26/2004 07:34 AM
Temporal Broadcast is alive!

NRA to broadcast the news

NRA to broadcast the news 12/14/2003 07:55 AM
America's National Rifle Association (NRA) is hoping to own a media outlet in the near future. This would allow it to be exempted from key provisions of the Campaign Finance Bill, that came into effect in November 2002.

UDP Game Broadcast Bouncer

UDP Game Broadcast Bouncer 12/17/2003 01:20 PM
Do you use this program?

Broadcast flag goes into effect 7-1-05

Broadcast flag goes into effect 7-1-05 07/06/2004 11:34 AM
Build your own PVR. Why TiVo when you can freevo? A cool little forum for couch potatoes warriors.

Personal Broadcast Networks?

Personal Broadcast Networks? 02/10/2004 12:08 PM
Downbr igade makes a case for video aggregators.  It is already here in the form of RSS enclosures (I still get lots of video and audio clips from Adam Curry delivered automatically to a folder on my desktop).  However, not everyone has the bucks like Adam to pay the hosting costs this entails.  What is needed is a P2P system that hooks into aggregators and weblog tools.

This is, of course, something that I have been an advocate of for years and years.  It just hasn't made it fruition yet.  However, with video phones just around the corner, the time is ripe for some movement in this direction.  What is needed to get this moving:

• A P2P system like Onion Networks that generates unique file names for all files on the system and content check to ensure there isn't any corruption of the file on the network.  Like Onion, this system needs to be viewable by all active participants on the network (systems like KaZaA and Morpheus only show you a small portion of the network, which in turn requires up to ~40,000 copies on the network in order to be seen by everyone).  If a file is seen by all network participants, the publisher gets immediate help on bandwidth costs when the first person downloads the file to their system.
  
• The P2P system should generate a unique code for each file placed in a folder on a weblog publishers desktop.This code could be cut and pasted into a weblog post.  When a reader clicks the post, they are requested to download an RSS aggregator to view the content. 
  
• An RSS aggregator with connections with desktop P2P software.  Additional control, provided the aggregator software, would let you determine when you wanted it downloaded (now or later).  You would also have the option of downloading it as part of your RSS feed if you trust that person.

The end-user experience should be as simple and subscribing to an RSS feed and setting the preferences for that feed (enclosures or no enclosures). Alternatively, if an end-user (reader) clicks on a link to a P2Ped video file published on a weblog they aren't subscribed to, a windlet would pop up to ask them to download some aggregator software -- or -- if they have it already it would ask them whether they wanted to dowload it now or later. 

The end result would be a system that scales (to millions of users), is inexpensive to operate (which means almost anyone could do it with a DSL connection), and is fast (since downloads can come from multiple sources with the same file).  It would allow us to move to a world where publishing a news channel is as simple as taking the video and putting it into your weblog.  Raw video news all the time.  I wish someone had the cohones to put this together.

NOTE: If Dean had only spent $100k of his money on putting the parts (the software is already there -- all we need is a high viz demo) together on a system like this, he would have a way to truly put the screws to big media.

Why the Broadcast Flag Matters

Why the Broadcast Flag Matters 03/14/2005 06:12 PM

Susan Crawford explains why this week's oral argument concerning the FCC's broadcast flag ruling is important to the future of the Net.

Can we deal on the Broadcast Flag?

Can we deal on the Broadcast Flag? 06/17/2005 07:13 PM
Congressman Richard Boucher says that the broadcast flag should only be approved if Congress is also willing to establish clear legal pathways to fair use. But what does the content industry really want?

"Sinclair Broadcast Group"

"Sinclair Broadcast Group" 05/01/2004 09:06 AM

Appeal for Broadcast Assassins..

Appeal for Broadcast Assassins.. 02/17/2004 07:50 PM

Public service announcement: Basically the BBC is doing a session in a couple of weeks (March 8th) in London exploring the impact of new technologies on viewing / listening behaviour and they're looking for volunteers to come and spend the afternoon with some key managers from around the organisation (or something like that). I don't have a lot of details about the project, but I think there's a nominal contribution for the day and people who participate will be doing something good and positive both for the BBC and for all of us who end up consuming stuff that the BBC produces. If you're interested in participating then you have to fill in and return th is questionaire as soon as humanly possible. Unfortunately, I can't attend as I work for the BBC (annoying but true), but I'd be interested to hear how people got on...

Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3)

Broadcast Treaty negotiations (day 2/3) 06/08/2004 12:31 PM
We've just wrapped up the second day of Broadcast Treaty negotations at the UN in Geneva, and once again, two colleagues and I took really extensive notes on the proceeding. Brazil and India gave amazing testimony today, and I was able to address the UN on DRM -- it was screamingly cool. We did a lot more editorializing today -- it's still hard to follow, but damn this is important. If we lose here, it's a disaster for the Internet and the PC.

* Brazil

- Article 5: National Treatment. We favor alternative J, irrespective of whether we agree on some kind of redefinition of the term "national." We reserve the right to come back -- possible at a future meeting -- to the issue of the rights conferred to the beneficiaries under the treaty.

[ed: note Brazilian implication that this business shouldn't be concluded at this session]

- Concentrate on Article 16, Technical Protection Measures [ed: AKA DRM]. Brazil is concerned with proposed inclusion of TPMs in proposed new treaty. Aware that similar provisions are in WCT and WPPT, but it's important to recall that those treaties were negotiated and adopted when there was little awareness regarding potential implications of use of TPMs. Since then, some years have gone by, and there's a growing widespread awareness that use of such measures can be quite detrimental to rights of consumers and public at large. Significant concern that anticircumvention has significant negative for exercise of rights exceptions and limitations in national laws. Important obstacle to access of public to public domain materia.

Inconsistent with necessary free flow of info so important to encourage innovation and creativity in the digital environment. All of Art 16 counters stated objectives of new treaty as referred to in preamble. Para recognizes need to maintain balance between rights of broadcasters and larger public interest.

This entire article should believe this entire article should be deleted from the text. Other delegates argue that e fact that we have these provisions in WCT and WPPTY mean that we should include them in this treaty. We disagree. Not pertinent to rights of broadcasting organizations.

[ed. Brazil is very courageous. -dt]

[ed. See EFF's Unintended Consequences report for some of the specific harms from adopting anticircumvention to which Brazil alludes. Brazil recognizes that previous treaties offer opportunity to learn from mistakes, not just blindly follow existing language. -ws]

[ed This is the best statement I've ever heard at a WIPO session. -cd]

Chairman: Access to information is near to my heart as well. This is not intended to cover DRM that locks up public domain material. If an industry or entity does this, then TPM protection shouldn't be available and circumvention should be lawful.

[ed. Since broadcasting isn't copyright, though, there's a wide range of new material locked up by new rights for broadcasters. Otherwise, there's no need for a treaty at all, since copyright and licensing of copyrights can cover the field. -ws]

[ed. It's a nice theory, but the DMCA enthusiastically covers the uncopyrightable, the public domain, and things that really shouldn't be thought of as copyright, like the way that garage door owners work or the secret of refilling a printer cart -cd]

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The Battle for the Broadcast Bands

The Battle for the Broadcast Bands 05/06/2004 01:07 PM
The FCC is considering a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to open up un-used broadcast television bands for unlicensed use.  It adopted a notice of inquiry exploring this possibility last year, but an NPRM would be a significant step forward -- it would mean the FCC has specific proposals that, following public comment, it can actually adopt. 

This is a huge opportunity.  All the innovation and investment in unlicensed wireless to date has occurred in narrow, noisy, high-frequency bands.  Because of their propagation characteristics, the broadcast frequencies are the best place to create new broadband alternatives.  Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt advoca ted this point in his Senate testimony last week. 

Unfortunately, and predictably, the incumbent broadcasters aren't happy with the idea.  Even though they would be some of the biggest beneficiaries of opening up the broadcast band "white space" which is now completely un-used, they see anything that increases usable wireless capacity eroding their lucrative government-granted oligopoly. 

A source tells me that FCC Chairman Powell wants to put the broadcast band NPRM on the FCC's open meeting agenda for next week, but he is facing furious opposition from the broadcasters.  If you care about creating new opportunities for wireless innovation and broadband deployment, now is the time to push the FCC to do the right thing. 

SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP

SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP 04/30/2004 09:20 AM
Sinclair Broadcast Group .. statement .. Sinclair

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"Nightline" ratings up on war broadcast

"Nightline" ratings up on war broadcast 05/04/2004 02:01 PM

An FM Broadcast Transmitter For Your
Home

An FM Broadcast Transmitter For Your
Home 01/07/2005 04:10 AM

No MacWorld SF Keynote Broadcast?

No MacWorld SF Keynote Broadcast? 01/07/2005 12:20 AM
MacInTouch claims that Apple will not be providing a real-time broadcast of Macworld SF 2005's keynote speech. According to "an Apple note" forward...

FCC Approves Broadcast Flag

FCC Approves Broadcast Flag 11/04/2003 07:06 PM
As was very much expected, the FCC ignored plenty of reasons why this is a terrible idea and has approved the "broadcast flag" for digital TV programs. All digital TV receivers will need to recognize this flag, meaning that people will (a) need to buy new equipment and (b) lose plenty of fair use rights. Note that it will do nothing to stop "piracy" as the industry claims. It's unclear from the quick Associated Press version of the article how the broadcast flag is going to be implemented (that is, who is going to set it up and approve it), but I'm sure that information will come out shortly. Anyway, here we have another political decision that will do nothing to solve an actual problem, but will make most people worse off.

XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast on Web

XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast on Web 09/15/2004 06:57 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 15 2004 11:38PM GMT

XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast on Web
(AP)

XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast on Web
(AP) 09/15/2004 05:16 PM
AP - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will soon begin broadcasting some of its stations to subscribers over the Internet, fresh on the heels of the company's discontinuation of a receiver for PCs that some users used to circumvent the music industry's crackdown on illegal file sharing.

Broadcast Flag Burning

Broadcast Flag Burning 08/02/2004 07:00 PM
I wasn't convinced that the broadcast flag was such a big deal. But this story about Tivo asking the FCC for permission to add new features is changing my mind. Creative destruction doesn't ask for permission. (Thanks to Jonathan Zittrain, Susan Crawford)....

Tivo and the broadcast flag

Tivo and the broadcast flag 08/02/2004 11:50 AM
Want to see just how absurd our attempt to regulate the sharing of content has become? Read Rob Pegoraro's excellent explanation, in The Washington Post, of TiVo's recent proposal to the FCC for an exemption to the Broadcast Flag ruling....

Reversing the Broadcast Flow

Reversing the Broadcast Flow 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
Ed Cone blogs about a comment thread on the John Edwards blog that altered Edwards' stump speech. Ed writes: Elizabeth Edwards commented here that comments on her husband's campaign blog serve to inform him about people's real concerns. I ask for an example. She replies with a specific example about the Earned Income Tax Credit that led to Edwards refocusing on the issue: "Scott was on top of it and let us know through the blog, and the criticism that John had expressed earlier but that had been dropped from more recent speeches has been reinserted... "John and I...

It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants!

It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants! 12/02/2003 01:52 AM

"Does Madonna have the right to tell you how to dispose of your jeans? From the way Time Warner, the Gap stores, and eBay are acting, you'd think she does."

-- from the strange tale of not being allowed to sell a CD the Gap gave away to you.

Canada's Broadcast Flag

Canada's Broadcast Flag 09/08/2004 04:44 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Broadcast Flag is a US regulation that nominally prevents Internet redistribution of digital TV signals, but in fact sets up a world where Hollywood studios and their captured regulators get a veto over the design of all new TV technology -- and distort the market for PC components like hard drives and video-cards in a way that will hobble innovation, drive up prices and shut out open source.

Weirdly enough, Canada seems to think that this sounds pretty good.

Given the controversy associated with the broadcast flag in the U.S., one would think that Canada would be wary about embarking on the same route. Accordingly, it came as a shock to many when an Industry Canada official recently indicated that Canada was likely to follow the U.S. lead by quickly implementing a similar system by July 2005. The official suggested that there was broadcaster support for the measure and that since the U.S. had adopted it, Canadians had little alternative but to follow suit.

While Canadian broadcasters may or may not support the broadcast flag (they have in fact been rather publicly silent on the matter), it is essential Canada craft its own policy by considering the privacy and copyright policies associated with the proposal.

Pre-judging the issue, as some in Minister Emerson's department appear to have done, is a dangerous course of action, that should be replaced immediately by a working group of all stakeholders, including the broader public interest, intent on studying the Canadian options. The suggestion Canada faces a Y2K-like deadline with respect to the broadcast flag appears as overblown as was the Y2K threat itself.

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NTT DoCoMo OnQ Digital Broadcast
Recorder

NTT DoCoMo OnQ Digital Broadcast
Recorder 05/18/2004 10:38 PM
MobileMag May 19 2004 2:03AM GMT

Broadcast crash in Popmessenger 1.60
(before 20 Sep 2004)

Broadcast crash in Popmessenger 1.60
(before 20 Sep 2004) 09/21/2004 08:58 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 21 2004)

Testing for 3G Cell Broadcast Services

Testing for 3G Cell Broadcast Services 05/19/2004 04:44 AM
3G May 19 2004 8:40AM GMT

A Broadcast Flag For Digital Radio?

A Broadcast Flag For Digital Radio? 05/24/2004 06:59 PM
The RIAA isn't exactly known for understanding concepts like fair use, or that giving consumers what they want generally helps to grow a market, but now they're just wasting everyone's time. Their latest move is to push for a broadcast flag for digital radio, so that you may no longer be able to record what you hear on the radio. In other words, just as the industry is trying to convince people to switch over to digital radio for the better sound quality, they're also going to be taking away the rights people have enjoyed for ages concerning what they can do with the content they hear.

BNP's broadcast based on C4 film

BNP's broadcast based on C4 film 05/26/2004 10:44 PM
The BNP is to base an election broadcast on a documentary dropped by C4 because of its racially sensitive content.

Porn channel fined for broadcast

Porn channel fined for broadcast 07/28/2004 02:52 AM
A pornographic satellite channel is fined £50,000 for broadcasting hard-core sex scenes before 9pm.

Broadcast shutdown in Call of Duty 1.4

Broadcast shutdown in Call of Duty 1.4 09/06/2004 04:11 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 05 2004)

Far Beyond What the TV Networks
Broadcast, the Internet Offers Anything
You Want to Know About the O

Far Beyond What the TV Networks
Broadcast, the Internet Offers Anything
You Want to Know About the O 07/09/2004 05:11 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Fri Jul 9, 09:29 am GMT

matt describes how the Olympics should
be broadcast

matt describes how the Olympics should
be broadcast 08/04/2004 03:21 PM
PVRs and HDTV have redefined the game, but NBC is still just trying to go for volume

Bush in T-shirt not for broadcast
(Reuters)

Bush in T-shirt not for broadcast
(Reuters) 06/26/2004 05:57 AM
Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush has been caught on video wearing a T-shirt at the window of an Irish castle before meeting European leaders but summit organisers have urged broadcasters not to use the image.

Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On

Broadcast Treaty Battle Rages On 08/28/2004 06:11 AM
Wired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT

Slingbox Personal Broadcast On The
Horizon

Slingbox Personal Broadcast On The
Horizon 03/23/2005 06:50 AM

We first mentioned the Slingbox Personal Broadcaster back in August but it's looking like the device might actually materialize on store shelves sometime soon. The 1.5 pound Hershey-styled box has a built-in TV tuner and wired ethernet and allows you to dial up your home media selection from anywhere using any compatible device (cell phone, laptop, pda, etc.). The connection speed is analyzed and the signal is compressed and convenient slung over the interweb to your waiting device. Sling Media tells us it will cost about $250 and will ship soon. Also, what I first thought to be a strange engraving of the occult on top of the unit turns out to be boring phrases like "My Cable", "My DVD" and the like, dashing my hopes that the box might aid in a simple séance or two from a remote location.

Slingbox Coming Soon [I4U]

Mid-East peace song is broadcast

Mid-East peace song is broadcast 03/27/2005 10:42 AM
A love song by an Israeli and a Palestinian is aired on Israel Army Radio and Voice of Palestine radio.

EFF Fights Broadcast Flag With ...
MythTV?

EFF Fights Broadcast Flag With ...
MythTV? 07/02/2004 08:20 AM

The EFF has an interesting, if somewhat milquetoast call out to programmers and other geeks to help develop the MythTV project, specifically to make it easier to use by the average consumer. Their fear is that the FCC's broadcast flag (a DRM system that will lock down your ability, unless permitted by broadcasters, to exercise your fair use rights, like copying or timeshifting, on HDTV streams) will pass into law as scheduled about a year from now. There is a loophole, currently, that allows unrestricted HDTV devices to be sold and resold, even after the broadcast flag goes into effect.

The idea is, I think, to try to get as many unrestricted HDTV tuners and PVRs into the hands of people as possible, not only to free themselves from future restriction, but to raise awareness that the government, in the pocket of Hollywood, has already made plans to put the squeeze on your rights.
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INDUCE Act: Ipecac for Fair Use [Gizmodo]

Iraq hostages video is broadcast

Iraq hostages video is broadcast 06/03/2004 02:10 AM
An Arabic TV station broadcasts a two-day-old video of three Italians currently being held hostage in Iraq.

Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast
Flag?

Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast
Flag? 09/26/2004 03:29 PM

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