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Analog Hole Legislation Formally Introduced
phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica is covering a recent bit of legislation introduced to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this past week. The laws would seek to close the 'Analog Hole' that serves as a sort of last-ditch pirating mechanism when corporate DRM goes all crazy and tramples on your fair-use rights: 'Calling the ability to convert analog video content to a digital format a significant technical weakness in content protection, H.R. 4569 would require all consumer electronics video devices manufactured more than 12 months after the DTCSA is passed to be able to detect and obey a rights signaling system that would be used to limit how content is viewed and used. That rights signaling system would consist of two DRM technologies, Video Encoded Invisible Light (VEIL) and Content Generation Management System--Analog (CGMS-A), which would be embedded in broadcasts and other analog video content.'" We've previously covered this bill.
... but I think the whole A.Hole joke was covered in the previous slashdot article about the legislation ;)
They still can't prevent me from watching the film and telling people what happens...but I'm sure the MPAA is currently bribing a senator to sponsor the Psycho-Implant Motion Pictures Erased Digitally (PIMPED) bill.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
They just couldn't keep up and I am sure now they will stop pirating since this law was introduced.
Pirates always follow the law.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
No, literally. My eyes and ears are the analog hole. I have wetware exploits out the wazoo, and a damn near photogrpahic memory (albeit with some lossy codecs). The only way these copyright cartels are going to be able to legislate these holes closed will be to sew my eyes shut and fill my ears with cement. They should probably cut my fingers off and cut my tongue out while they're at it.
Are we going to stand for this? Are we?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
to the very best of my knowledge our eyes and ears are analog devices.
Speak for yourself, flesh creature.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
"Encoded Video Invisible Light"?(EVIL)
"Video Invisible Light Encoded"?(VILE)
Doing This Can't Stop Anything
Distrustful Thieving Corporations' Self-Annihilation
Doesn't The Congress Seem Absurd
The only real solution: copy-protect the actual audio output from the speakers, say by adding a high-energy ultrasonic screech which instantly obliterates all recording devices within hearing range.
They will pass a law making it illegal to even watch or listen to it
[That should solve the problem]
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
> I'm keen to see how these technically-inclined *ahem* folks intend
> to remove the digital-analog conversion: to the very best of my
> knowledge our eyes and ears are analog devices.
Obviously they can't, so that will have the effect of preventing
anyone from hearing the latest Britney Spears or Celine Dion songs.
It's really clever ploy.
At last! Someone is thinking of the children!
Video Encoded Invisible Light (VEIL)
How about Encoded Video - Invisible Light (EVIL)
or Video Invisible Light Encoded (VILE)
No? Sounds more apropos to me.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
"Hollywood isn't going to get another dollar of my cash nor a minute of my attention anymore (TV)."
Which just "proves," statistically, that you must be pirating the steaming piles of shit.
Obviously we need a Content Remembursment Appropriations Policy (CRAP) Act to make sure the content providers are suitably recompensed out of your tax dollars for all the shows you're stealing from them by not watching them.
Of course not watching the ads in the content you aren't watching is going to be a criminal offense, you fucking thief you.
KFG
PLUG THE ANAL LOG HOLE! heheh... PLUG IT NOW!!!
I fully support this bill, becuase I think the anal hole should be plugged as soon as possible!
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
We don't have any customers.
We have Theives that we treat like shit, While That pour money into our pockets.
hey! i prefer 'waterbag' you insensitive clod!
always mosh clockwise
Yeah, that's fairly accurate... you just need to add some misspellings and replace a couple of words there with random words from a dictionary. Then you will have an English user's manual written by a Chinese engineer/salesman/whatever.
Wait! I have it! A solution! Let's just put DRM in the Transistors, Capacitors, Resistors and possibly even the Wires themselves!
So, a transistor will have the normal 3 pins, plus 3 to 6 extra pins for the DRM!
A Capacitor, normally two pins, will need 4 extra to ensure it's only operating within its designated range.
A normal wire, once DRM enhanced, could have 2 extra conductors to insure its compliance with DRM approved resistance and impedence factors.
Once every transistor in an LCD panel is made safe by DRM, then we will have peace in the middle east.
We should have RIAA/MPAA executives and members of the U.S. government who advocate this brain implant, development, alpha, and beta test the product.
I'll bet it goes nice with my tin foil hat!
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with vanilla wafer rolls.