Re: [backstage] The Nature of the Problem with HD Content Protection

2010-06-24 Thread David Tomlinson
Brian Butterworth wrote: So, is this the privatization of approval? We do seem to have swapped from having got rid of the /PostMaster General/ and the/ Lord Chamberlain/ to having /Record Company Executives /decide what's/ good for us./ Yes, the politicians think, that if they use the law

[backstage] The Nature of the Problem with HD Content Protection

2010-06-22 Thread David Tomlinson
What we are witnessing is an intellectual property land grab. The content distributors are continuing to the ever increasing duration of copyright (regulatory capture) to increasing it's scope. The scope is from controlling the commercial distribution of copyright material, to controlling