The Revolution will not be televised

Now, for those of you who are "new" to this blog, I'm a big political buff, but especially when it applies to technology. You can read my breakdown of the DMCA, or you could check out my objections to the FCC-mandated broadcast flag. Now, something has been happening in the past few days. The MPAA has started it's lawsuit rampage, following in the footsteps of the RIAA, which, of course, means the MPAA is now as doomed as the RIAA is. Good luck, monkey-spanks. However, the dooming of the MPAA is not the only thing that has had the internet rights community buzzing: One is the ominous Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004 (H.R.2391), and the other is The FCC's apparent attempt to control everything it can get it's grubby, fine-throwin' fingers on. Now, I've read the PDF brief of the law [55-page PDF], and I couldn't find anything that implied that the FCC was attempting to flex it's judicial muscles over computers and other non-TV devices, but I haven't read it in-depth enough to really tell. Hopefully I'll print it off and bring it to my gig tonight, and read it during set breaks. In fact, I'll be printing off a copy of H.R. 2391 tonight, as well, so that I can pour through that, too. You might have a look-see, and take a look at some of the articles that decry it. We may have a real fight on our hands, here.

But then again, when do we not?