FCC hearing: disagreement over the "broadband of tomorrow"

American artists are “the world’s storytellers,” said FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate at today’s third FCC en banc hearing of the year; while this might sound a bit patronizing to the rest of the world, it goes down well during discussions about file-sharing and broadband. These storytellers are currently watching “the art of this country vanish into thin air,” Tate continued, “as a result of illegal downloading.” Tate stopped short of putting out solutions, but she made it clear that the $200 million “lost” in her home state of Tennessee every year had to stop somehow.