I promise I won't rant too much. Just head over to Ars Technica and read the fine article about the Federal Communications Commission's claim that they control each and every aspect of telecommunications, including what you can do with content you've received in such manner.
For those of you in the audience that are going screw that, I don't live in the U.S., bear in mind that will end up trickling down to your country.
That's not a paranoid statement - it's a fact. For Costa Rica, the "Free Trade Agreement" (somebody explain to me why there are so many restrictions in it if it's free trade) had implications tying it to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which allows corporations to set up their own use restrictions well outside copyright law (which is already ridiculous) and is being capitalized on in the U.S. for neat purposes like illegal subpoenas.
Posted by Ricardo at November 16, 2004 09:54 AM