Gregory's Server
But here's where it gets *super* gnarly. Thanks to a technology called #SoftwareDefinedRadio (SDR), *any* computer could be a DTV receiver. That meant that a law that said you could only build a DTV receiver if it was designed to look for the Broadcast Flag and to prevent users from modifying it, that you would end up regulating *every computer that would ever be built or sold, forever*. What's more, that ban on "modifiability" would mean that all Free/Open Source software would be banned.
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That's obviously a nightmarish idea, but the whole thing was so complicated that just explaining it to people was a huge slog. It was a classic #MEGO problem ("my eyes glaze over"), where a wicked scheme is so complex that it's just about impossible to get anyone to care about it until it's too late. This is what Dana Claire calls "The shield of boringness."
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