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Skriven 2005-11-02 08:55:08 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
     Kommentar till en text av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: The new A-Hole bill
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer_removeme@mindspring.com>

I hope our legislature is smart enough to know that this can't fly.

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Bob Comer


"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004106.php
>
> ===
> Halloween is traditionally the time when the undead walk; preposterous
> monstrosities that no-one could imagine living stumble and moan through
> the land.
>
> So guess what the entertainment industry decided to dust off for an
> extra spooky session with the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday?
>
> Why, yes, they are bringing the broadcast flag. And, certainly, there is
> talk of their henchmen at the RIAA clumsily re-animating their insane
> digital radio requirements.
>
> But that's not spooky enough for the MPAA. For their party trick this
> year, they want to take one of the most basic and ubiquitous components
> in multimedia, and encase it within a pile of legally-enforced, complex,
> and patented proprietary technology - forever.
>
> 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.
>
> But it won't just be your TiVo: anything that brings analog video into
> the digital world will be shackled. Forget about buying a VCR with an
> un-DRMed digital output. Forget about getting a TV card for your
> computer that will willingly spit out an open, clear format.
>
> Forget, realistically, that your computer will ever be under your
> control again. To allow any high-res digitization to take place at all,
> a new graveyard of digital content will have to built within your PC.
>
> Freshly minted digital video from authorised video analog-to-digital
> converters will be marshalled here and here only, where they will be
> forced to comply with the battery of restrictions dictated by Hollywood.
> In this Nightmare Before Turing, video content will be crippled, far
> more than it ever was in its old analog home. They will only be able to
> be recorded using "Authorized Recording Methods", or "Bound Recording
> Methods", and the entire subsystem will have to obey "robustness"
> requirements that will make circumvention for fair use - and open source
> development in general - near impossible.
>
> The unprotected analog outputs of computers will be, in perpetuity,
> restricted to either DRM-laden standards, or to a "constrained image",
> "no more than 350,000 pixels". Analog video which has been branded as
> "do not copy", will last for only ninety minutes only in the digital
> world - and will be erased, literally frame by frame, megabyte by
> megabyte, from your PC, without your control. You'll watch a two hour
> film, and as you watch the final half hour, the first few scenes will be
> being dissolved away by statute.
>
> Moore's Law won't dictate how technology might improve and innovate any
> longer: in this Halloween future, the new limit for technological
> innovation is No More's Law, where your specs are spelled out and frozen
> by Congress in a law drafted by standards that were laughable in the
> last century.
>
> And this is just a plain description of how this might affect our
> technology....
> ===
>
> /m

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