The RIAA's Halloween Tricks

deus42 writes "BoingBoing has an interesting article about a joint RIAA/MPAA move started yesterday on Capitol Hill. From the article: 'Hollywood has fielded a shockingly ambitious piece of Analog Hole legislation while everyone was out partying in costume. Under a new proposed Analog Hole bill, it will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either has all its outputs approved by the Hollywood studios, or is closed-source, proprietary and tamper-resistant. The idea is to make it impossible to create an MPEG from a video signal unless Hollywood approves it.'"

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Re:Digitize this

[kjots]

This is just another example of how the US just continues slide backwards whilst the rest of the world moves forward.

I'll stick with Europe and Asia, and sit back and watch as the US slips furthur into irrelevance.

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