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Cards and letters appear to be working, according to a John Borland/CNet article (thanks to Ernie Miller for the link):
Washington sources said the resulting barrage of consumer lobbying has been heard at the FCC, and has helped influence commissioners' deliberations.
So, keep sending in the notes! Here are the links to EFF and Digital Consumer.org's templates... write something of your own and email it in! My note to the FCC is in the "more" section below. Feel free to copy or riff on it; it's no rights reserved as usual!
To the FCC:
I do not want the broadcast flag rule adopted. I don't want the copyright industry telling the consumer electronics' industry what to make, I do not want copyright to trump free speech, innovation, future jobs and health insurance, and the freedom of our society to express itself. There are other ways to protect copyright holders. And, as the copyright industries own researchers, Informa Media, has told them, transmission over the internet of video and TV WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM until 2020.... Don't buy what the MPAA says. It's incorrect. They don't understand because they are scared of ending up like the RIAA. But their situation is different and it can't be solved with a broadcast flag. Please do the right thing and don't adopt it.
Consumers will also suffer, because they will have to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade to digital equipment. Why? For a problem that doesn't exist, for a technology that hampers innovation and new jobs and industries, and at the expense of fair use? Crazy. Don't do it.
Mary