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[Discuss-gnuradio] SLASHDOT: MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!


From: Steve Schear
Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] SLASHDOT: MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:20:19 -0700

A month ago, the MPAA filed its report (http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf ) with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terrors of analog copying. I quote: "in order to help plug the hole, watermark detectors would be required in" -- are you sitting down? -- "all devices that perform analog to digital conversions." At their page Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age (http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/feature.cfm) the Senate lays out the issues they'll be looking at, including briefs from corporate groups, and provides a comment form (http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/input_form.cfm) so your opinion can be heard as well. As Cory Doctorow writes: "this is a much more sweeping (and less visible) power-grab than the Hollings Bill, and it's going forward virtually unopposed. ...the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/) is bare weeks away from turning over a veto on new technologies to Hollywood." Doctorow's article on the "analog hole" (http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html) for the EFF does a great job of explaining the issues to non-electrical-engineers, and has many thought-provoking examples of how requiring such technology would be a giant step backwards.




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