New Bill Threatens to Plug "Analog Hole"

ThinSkin writes "In an effort to encourage consumers to embrace digital content, The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting a bill that would restrict owners of analog devices from recording analog content. For instance, if a fan wishes to tape a Baseball game on his VCR, the VCR would re-encode the content of that game and convert it into a digital form, which would then be filled with right restrictions and so forth. The process would be driven by VRAM (Veil Rights Assertion Mark), a technology that stamps analog content with DRM schemes."

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[sr180]

This troll post appears everytime there is a story involving the RIAA.

a hole, huh?

[roman_mir]

Can't say analog hole without saying: fucking government, always trying to fuck you right in the a..nalog hole.
This is so stupid that a government (any government) is acting as a business protection agent. Of-course it looks like that's all governments do nowadays.