Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Corynne McSherry & Cory Doctorow
“President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing – one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves. The FCC is quietly contemplating a fundamental restructuring of all broadcasting in the United States, via a new DRM-based standard for digital television equipment, enforced by a private ‘security authority’ with control over licensing, encryption, and compliance.” (05/08/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm