Well, the younger Powell and his crew were busy yesterday. Rulings were made about cell phone spam and digital broadcast reproduction.

On cell phone spam: you can't send it via email... which isn't surprising, but the CAN-SPAM act will now have a registry of domains for wireless providers that can't be spammed to. Makes you wonder what you have to do to get on that list...

Unfortunately, SMS SPAM can still be sent using the cell phone numbers as the addressing mechanism, so if they have your wireless number and send it through a legitimate SMS gateway, they can do that. However, you will have a confirmed return address and the cell providers will get paid...

On the digital broadcast reproduction front, the FCC ruled that there are thirteen accepted methods for reproducing digital broadcast content that do not allow indiscriminate redistribution and therefore are sanctioned by the FCC. I'm not quite sure what it means to be approved other than to agree that there are such mechanisms, which will bolster the call for the broadcast flag.