March 14th, 2007

DVB broadcast flag will require government support, but may not get it

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica

The Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium sets digital television transmission specs for much of the world, but in recent years the group has turned its attention to crafting something far more controversial: a broadcast flag...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the only public-interest group that sat in on DVB's technical meetings over the last three years, and they recently sounded the alarm over the finalization of the Content Protection and Copy Management (CPCM) system.

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