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DRM and the Myth of the Analog Hole
Art Grimm writes "Movie studios want to punish legitimate customers for legally purchasing content, while the real pirates go right on stealing. ZDNet's George Ou writes: "There seems to be a persistent myth floating around the board rooms of the movie companies and Congress that analog content is the boogie man of music and video piracy. In fact, they're so paranoid about it that they're considering a mechanism called ICT (Image Constraint Token) that punishes law-abiding customers for content that they legally purchased. But ironically, the real content pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever taking advantage of the so called "analog hole" because that is the slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content.""
Oh my god! Is it geek porno night already?!
Yeah, a digitally shot, digitally editted, digitally mastered and digitally distributed movie definitely looks better analog.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
In fact, I transfer all of my DVD's to VHS. Just for quality.
Same here. I just can't decode those 1's and 0's in my head fast enough.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
RIAA: *compairing DRMs with the MPAA... "I see that your schwartz is as big as mine! Let's see how well you handle it."
Government and media producers are out of touch with reality! News at 10! Film at 11!
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Your random post generator is somewhat cool but it doesn't quite pass the Turing test just yet.