It's the New Halloween Memo:
Feel free to flick through this new Halloween document: it's a legislative draft proposed by the MPAA for a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, on the topic "Content Protection in the Digital Age: The Broadcast Flag, High-Definition Radio, and the Analog Hole," on November 3rd.
Why worried? Because Congress has shown time and time again that it's stupid enough and venal enough to pass something like this, despite not understanding anything about it, in return for the mere suggestion that large amounts of money could sort of appear in their pockets.
Someone, somehow, needs to get it through Congress's head that this is not a case of fair business or preventing piracy, it's a case of a technological dinosaur whose business model has been made obsolete by progress and can no longer compete, trying to shackle the world back into the marketplace of twenty years ago in a desperate attempt to keep from dying of old age and irrelevance atop the moldering pile of its ill-gotten gains.
