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: MPAA try to close the analog hole
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:58:46 -0500
_______________ Forward Header _______________ Subject: MPAA try to close the analog hole Author: Chris Beck <cbeck () pacanukeha net> Date: 1st November 2005 12:48:06 pm from EFF: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004106.php ####### Ladies and gentlemen, the MPAA have chosen Halloween week to resurrect their most misconceived monster ever: the Thing from the Analog Hole. Feel free to flick through this new Halloween document: it's a legislative draft proposed by the MPAA for a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, on the topic "Content Protection in the Digital Age: The Broadcast Flag, High-Definition Radio, and the Analog Hole," on November 3rd. On Thursday, they'll be no doubt declaring this law's passing to be vital to the entertainment industry's survival, just as Jack Valenti told the same committee that the home video-recorder would kill the film industry. Here's what the proposed law says, in a nutshell: Every consumer analog video input device manufactured in the United States will be, within a year, forced to obey not one, but two new copy restriction technologies: a watermarking system called VEIL, and a rights system called CGMS-A (we've covered CGMS-A before; we'll talk a bit more about VEIL soon). And what might these MPAA-specified, government-mandated technologies do? They prescribe how many times (if at all) the analog video signal might be copied - and enforce it. This is the future world that was accidentally triggered for TiVo users a few months ago, when viewers found themselves lectured by their own PVR that their recorded programs would be deleted after a few days. ######## -- Chris Beck - http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com "We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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