From BoingBoing:
The Senate Commerce Committee’s hearings on the “Broadcast Flag” and “Audio Flag” proposals have been derailed because senators on the committee now use technologies that would be threatened by the flags.
…But in yesterday’s Commerce hearings, two Senators altered the course of events. First MIT grad John Sununu of New Hampshire said that government mandates “always restrict innovation” and then 82-year-old Ted Stevens of Alaska talked about the iPod he’d gotten for Christmas and put the RIAA’s Mitch Bainwol on the spot about whether his proposal would break Stevens’ ability to move digital radio programs to his iPod and listen to them in the most convenient way (it would).
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