Digital Content Security Act

bdwoolman writes "Congress is leaving a special gift under the tree for Hollywood's film industry. Just before closing for the holidays, legislators introduced a new proposal designed to curb redistribution of movies.The Digital Transition Content Security Act would embed anticopying technology into the next generation of digital video products. If it makes its way from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office and becomes law, the measure will outlaw the manufacture or sale of electronic devices that convert analog video signals into digital video signals, effective one year from its enactment. PC-based tuners and digital video recorders are listed among the devices."

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You are violating the act

[arrrrg]

by converting this post from analog to digital in your brain. You will be hearing from my lawyers (fp?).

Re:You are violating the act

[Tmack]

However, by typing your reply you already are in violation! You translated your analog thoughts and movements into digitaly stored characters by typing them into your comptuer!!!

Ack! Now Im in violation myself!

tm

The senate can leave this present under the tree..

[theheff]

...but I'll still be leaving the flaming bag of poo at the front door.

Re:Backed by John Conyers

[Anonymous Coward]

>he's spent all his political capital in my eyes.

Ewww.

I hope he at least had the common decency to hand you a tissue.

MPAA Amnesty Program

[themadplasterer]

If this legislation is passed the MPAA Amnesty program will be offering one free movie for every PC tuner card, ADVC converter & mini DV surrendered. Unfortunately the movie will be: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299930/

Re:But I like my microphone!

[icecow]

quote:
So now I can't record my guitar to my computer? No more computer karaoke? /endquote

Your arguements are not helping.

Re:Remember people

[cujo_1111]

You know that fence on the Mexican border, soon it will be to keep the USians out of Mexico...

What about LCD monitors?

[corsec67]

Since Analog VGA is, well, analog, then would all LCD monitors that have an input other than DVI be outlawed?

They do take an analog signal, and digitize it.

What about LCD TVs that take something other than DVI / HDMI in?

I am pretty sure that the signal coming in from the sattelite isn't (purely) digital, so somewhere the video has to be converted to a digital form.

And, at a basic level, even computers aren't fully digital. There is a rising edge of the clock, it isn't instantaneous. Does that mean that a certain slope of rising or falling edge makes a signal "analog"?

I would like to see the debate on that in congress.

Re:Backed by John Conyers

[Fordiman]

"RMS"?

I'm all for having the Root-Mean-Square algorithm - or any algorithm (except Al Gore, of course) - for president. Hell, even a prime search algoritm would do a better job than Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, or any of the 2008 nominatory candidates I've heard of so far.

Actually, a No. 2 pencil would do a better job.

Fucking useless human presidents.

Re:Remember people

[EdHockery]

Well, you can allways come to Holland.