Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney

Phil Lelyveld, a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer‘s comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs — under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood’s permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC — who are taking comments on the proposal — without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a two dot.com millionaires working to create a world where we are all artist/waiters — via Slashdot