Another interesting bit from digg:

Amazingly, 25 years ago someone recorded a dial scan of their radio on the night John Lennon was murdered. A fascinating way to capture history, and something that might become impossible if the Radio Flag legislation goes through.

There are a million uses of culture between the law and the street, but proposals like the Broadcast Flag would kick them all to the curb. In the world envisioned by some content holders, every imaginable use of music/movies/text will be controlled. And anything they can't imagine today will simply be precluded by some combination of law and Orwellian technology. These kinds of incidental uses of media may be hard to quantify, but they're valuable nonetheless.

[Via digg]