--- Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The card vendors will no doubt build up large stockpiles of the cards before the deadline, so there will be a supply for individuals for a while, but the inability to make or import more will mean nobody will be willing to make a product based on them.
I thought the broadcast flag rule made it illegal to SELL a card after July 5, not merely manufacture. If so, there would be no point in stockpiling cards -- they could not be sold. Otherwise, what would stop pcHDTV from buying a huge warehouse and laying in a five-year supply??
Here's the relevant text of the rule, saying that lawfully manufactured products are grandfathered:
43 CFR 73.9002(b):
Covered Demodulator Products. No party shall sell or distribute in interstate
commerce a Covered Demodulator Product that does not comply with the Demodulator
Compliance Requirements and Demodulator Robustness Requirements. The requirements
of this paragraph shall not apply to the sale or resale of a product that was manufactured
prior to the effective date of this subpart or that initially was sold or distributed in
compliance with this subpart.
--Wendy -- -- Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Frontier Foundation Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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