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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.'"
I can think of a hole I'd like them to approve...
...what if there were no rhetorical questions?
You sir, must be new to America!
ewwww. I can't believe I typed that.
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
I'm not new to it, I just haven't -completely- given up on it yet.
I know nothing
...or the fact that they actually introduced an "A Hole" bill. Nice that they are at least being up front about it for a change.
And that would make all of the geeks rogue outlaw bad-boy types, which would make them suddenly very appealing to women, so maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all.
Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the number e.
But the date didn't end with sex.
It ended in him mocking her because of her beliefs on copyright law.
Certainly very slashdot.
2 good movies in 800 per year is not something to be proud of.
Why not? You've got the US beat by at least one.
That, or he entered a coma in November of 2000, and just woke up...
I'd call my Congressman to protest but he's busy meeting a lobbyist.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
They're way ahead of you- their next move is to regulate opposable thumbs.
Please take pictures.
- oZ
// i am here.