A doctoral student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and a researcher in the field of computer security and commentator on information technology, Simson L. Garfinkel’s most recent column in the MIT Enterprise Technology Review suggests that “The latest anti-piracy move by the Motion Picture Association of America will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programmes … and that their newly developed “broadcast flag” technology will enable all manner of other restrictions”. This future is due to arrive on July 1, 2005, Canada Day.
