Month: June 2005
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Broadcast Flag Nearly Dead in the Water
The EFF quotes a story from the (for-pay-only) Communications Daily, reporting that the MPAA is backing away from asking the House Commerce Committee from including a broadcast flag provision in a digital TV bill, because Committee Chair Joe Barton is against it. That doesn’t mean the MPAA is giving up, but it does mean that…
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Hacker e-zine nears final issue
Phrack, “a Hacker magazine by the community, for the community,” has been published via textfile since 1985, and is calling it quits four months shy of its 20th birthday. I’ve read Phrack periodically since I don’t even remember when. I don’t think I ever read it during my BBS days, which ran about 1985-1988, though…