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Blank TV screens instead of programs?
p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- In the weeks leading to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing on broadcasting licences, Canadians were inundated with splashy advertising campaigns claiming that new fees for local signals were either a TV tax or would save local television. With all of the major broadcasters and cable companies appearing before the commission, the fee-for-carriage (or value-for-signal) issue unsurprisingly took centre stage at last week’s hearing. Yet those convinced that the broadcaster plan was limited to a new fee were in for a rude awakening.
Continue reading »Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform
As the wireless industry makes its case for more spectrum licenses, it’s facing stiff opposition from television broadcasters who warn that any reallocation of the band would be “terrible public policy.” TV brings “vast efficiencies to our national communications infrastructure,” eight broadcast groups led by Sinclair Media told the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, “through their ability to serve ‘one to many’ in small bandwidth segments, and those efficiencies cannot be achieved in any other way.” Ditto, add a slew of state broadcasting associations . “It would be a sad irony if, in response to false warnings of a looming broadband spectrum crisis,” dozens of them wrote to the FCC, “the Commission were to abort free, over the air, digital television service, which provides the most obvious savings of disposable income that consumers might use to adopt broadband.”
Continue reading »Senate hears royalty debate pitting Big Content vs Big Radio
The saga over Internet radio royalties may be behind us (for now), but the royalty debate is far from over. During a
Continue reading »Broadcasters lose in court over low-power FM radio
Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full power station signal interference. “This is terrific news for the low power radio community,” declared Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project, which helps LPFMs. “Now, these stations can focus on serving their local communities, rather than live in fear of displacement due to the whims of their full-powered neighbors.”
Continue reading »BSA Admits Calculated Losses Due to Swedish Software Piracy Entirely Hypothetical
It’s another blow to the studies that are put out by the industry to highlight the problems of piracy – one of the studies published by the Business Software Alliance to highlight the problem in Sweden is apparently “built on flat fees and estimates”. In other words, they effectively gave an educated guess. Will the pirates who believed all along that the copyright industry was making up these statistics on losses due to piracy please raise you hand?
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