Certainly the few people I have mentioned this to have not heard of the broadcast flag. This is nuts considering the effect it will have on consumers all over the country. The key to grabbing attention for the issue is putting the situation in lay terms (to get people's interest, those who wish to delve into more technical aspects can do so), coming up with a few effective analogies, and getting articles in major newspapers or magazines. You have the knowledge and clout to try and sell an article on the broadcast flag to Wired for instance. I don't recall having seen anything about it there yet. Right now, with the FCC rewriting some major rules, reporters have taken notice and a few articles have appeared in all the major outlets. Perhaps if you tried to interest a reporter who wrote one of those articles to look into this story, interview you, and write somethig, word would get out. Another possibility would be doing a guest blog article on the topic and posting it on a very widely read blog - then perhaps a writer for a paper or magazine would eventually come to you. This seems like the sort of consumer advocate concern that would generate lots of buzz from techie communities on the internet and then move into the mianstream from there. It may just be difficult to get people interested in something that is not going to happen for two years or so. Hopefully an anti-broadcast flag group will get moving before it is really too late to stop the cogs.