Predicting The End Of Digital Copying

Posted by timothy on Monday August 19, 2002 @03:59PM from the we-control-the-vertical-we-control-the-horizontal dept.

prostoalex writes: "Christian Science Monitor warns about approaching era of digital prohibition. With FCC requiring the use of copy prevention mechanisms in future generations of television sets, soon 'Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD, watch a recorded DVD at a friend's house, or store a copy of a television show for more than a day'. Of course, no article on this topic can go without a mandatory quote from Jack Valenti, who points out: 'It is not legal to make a copy of a DVD now. Everything people are doing legally today, they'll be able to do legally tomorrow'."

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Re:Copying will be allowed, but taxed by Stonehand · 2002-08-19 17:20 · Score: 1, Troll

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