Macrovision Wants Old DRM to Work Forever

Grv writes "Macrovision's best-known form of copy protection inserts noise into analog video signals to make it difficult to get a good copy of the DVD or VHS recording. A company named Sima has products that eliminate this noise when digitizing such video, as any good digitizer would do. Macrovision argues that this is a violation of the DMCA, and a court sided with them in June. Now the injunction is being reviewed, and several organizations are siding with Sima and Fair Use, including the American Library Association, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Home Recording Rights Coalition, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If it isn't overturned, this decision could make it illegal to develop products for making copies of commercial analog recordings." This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.

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who is Saied Pinto?

[bunions]

and why do we care about what articles he lovingly selects for slashdot and which he doesn't?

Re:One Fine Day In The Not So Distant Future

[c6gunner]

Isn't that rather like arguing that you never really owned your record player, because you were forced to buy an iPod in order to keep up with technology? You can still play your old beatles records on an LP player. That's what you bought originaly - an LP to play on an LP player. And it still works exactly as advertised. If you want to enjoy it on a different player, buy a different version. If it wears out and no longer works, such is life. When your car wears out, you don't complain that you should have had the right to a backup copy, you go out an buy a new car. Why is music (or movies, or even books for that matter) any different?

Re:Digital, eh?

[sasdrtx]

Like any crack-whore, congresscritters do what gets them some cash or a fix. Everything else is a side-effect or collateral damage.