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.'"

Comments

Re:And no matter what they do...

[misleb]

.and will continue to make fun of her.

And she has agreed to see you again? Man, you much be hung like a horse.

-matthew

Re:And no matter what they do...

[cayenne8]

"...I couldn't stop laughing at her and kept making fun of her...and will continue to make fun of her."

Hmm....I'm guessing you did not get laid by her though?

:-)

While I agree with your thoughts on this...dude, you gotta remember you say what they want to hear to get laid!! You don't have to mean it.....

Stop modding someone pointing out "A Hole" funny!

[ysaric]

How many freaking "funny" mods can the same joke get? Hey, if you abbreviate the bill, it's "A Hole"!!! Doesn't anyone know what "Redundant" means?

Mod down - against groupthink

[heinousjay]

Let me preface this by saying I don't agree with the proposed legislation in the least - it goes way too far. No one is guaranteed a profit.

Still, is this level of hyperbole necessary? Like this choice quote from the article:

This is like a shopkeeper hiding a "I reserve the right to punch you in the nose" sign somewhere in his shop and then randomly clobbering his customers, answering any complaints by saying that you agreed to it when you came through the door.

No, not allowing you to watch a tv show on your own terms is nothing like being assaulted.

The studios will "enable the business-model" of charging you money for the stuff that you get for free today. Here's a quote: "Doing this stuff has value, and if it has value, we should be able to charge money for it." They do indeed have value: you currently enjoy that value. Under this proposal, the value will be stolen (emphasis mine) from you and sold back to you piecemeal.

Stolen? Okay, so the rhetoric normally says that intellectual property can not be stolen from its creators. The reasoning? It isn't tangible. Fine. So rewinding a recorded TV show is something that can be stolen? Wow... just wow.

Now, I reiterate - I think this proposed legislation is way over the line. My question becomes, how does sinking to this level help the cause?

Re:Digitize this

[vsprintf]

I spent a good deal of time working on the ivtv driver to get audio working on the PVR-150. You should also thank Hauppauge for providing some source to help the project along. The ability to control these cards under Linux (I feel) far surpasses that of their windows counterpart.

Okay, thanks to you personally and kudos added to the folks at Hauppauge for providing specs to the Linux community! (Although if they stopped changing the tuner without changing the model number, it seems to me it would be far easier to get things working.) The system works great when it is correctly configured.

One thing confuses me though. You said you worked on getting the PVR-150 audio working correctly (and this is the main part that doesn't work well under Windows). From the documentation, I thought that all the audio from the 150 was part of the MPEG-2 encoded stream/file from the card. How does that differ from the 250 or 350?