Broadcast flag hopefully in trouble

I really like my Tivo and it seems like the things possible mythtv are huge...I can imagine a really rich client/server media center in my home that allows viewing and listening from multiple locations in the home (or maybe even outside if I'm on the road and am missing "my shows"). Not that this is anything new. I remember ten years ago reading about Bill Gates fancy new house in Seattle that had technology heading in this direction.

The only hitch is that the recording and motion picture industry heavyweights don't want this to happen and have convinced the government to mandate it doesn't happen via "the broadcast flag". I haven't really had the time to build a mythtv setup in my house, but would like to be able to do something like this in the future. If the media industry has its way though, come July of this year it would be illegal for me to do that (ie: we have to imagine the broadcast flag would nearly always be on and thus recording be prohibited).

Hopefully the courts though are finding legal reason to allow a rich ecosystem of products for home media to develop. Comparing mythtv to Tivo and taking into account the industry's efforts to block online music distribution, I have to believe that open garage-style development is going to create better featured home media products faster than the industry. And that wont be allowed to happen with the broadcast flag.