At 8:36 PM -0800 1/21/98, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 12:30 PM -0800 1/21/98, Tim May wrote:
At 1:34 PM -0800 1/20/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:20:23 -0500 From: Alan Moseley <amoseley@clark.net> To: declan@well.com Subject: the Gore Commission and digital media
The Gore Commission -- the group created by Clinton to determine the future public interest obligations of digital TV broadcasters -- showed signs last week of broadening its reach to include other digital media that can deliver broadcast-like audio and video. ... The recent experience of the Communications Decency Act demonstrates the government's willingness to control digital speech. The //eagerness digital convergence argument could be a new rationale for further such interventions, Maines warned.
Just because the Internet can deliver audio and video signals is hardly a matter of "allocating scarce resources." Video rental stores can also deliver video signals, but there is no (well, modulo the "obscenity" laws in various communities) regulation of these sources.
Presumably they intend to also regulate live theater. It can also deliver audio and video. FUBAR.
Nope. Just places that rent or sell DVDs and CDs. "Other Digital Media". FUBAR, indeed. -- Marshall Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> Warning: Objects in calendar are closer than they appear.