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Supreme Court Indecency Case Has Implications for Comcast/BitTorrent

April 28, 2009

The big news today is the Supreme Court's ruling in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., wherein the Court reversed the Second Circuit's determination that the FCC acted arbitrarily when it found that "fleeting expletives" uttered by Bono, Cher and Nichole Ritchie at various televised-live award ceremonies were "indecent."  It is not, however, the indecency/broadcst free speech issues that make this case a big [obscene gerrund] deal from my perspective. Rather, the case should have significant impact on the pending Comcast/BitTorrent case now pending in the DC Circuit.

For the reasoning behind this assertion by Harold Feld, click here.

 
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