A-Hole bill



... The fact remains that the main issue here is not about piracy, it’s about control. The content industry needs a congressional mandate to control the functionality of consumer electronics and PCs, and in turn, what consumers can do with the devices and content they legally obtain.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/98

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Hollywood Plants Its Flags In Our Homes

...There's no benefit here for artists or customers, and for infringing copiers, evading these copy controls will be as easy as ever. No matter how inconvenienced individual users would be by a flag, pirates would be able to bypass it. The bill would usher in a new world of anti-consumer electronics, and a chance for the MPAA's and RIAA's member companies to seize even greater control over all media distribution and use.

it's still important for you to write to your senator and representative to support DMCA reform and take some of the bite out of these preposterous mandates.

http://tinyurl.com/awmml
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A-Hole bill would make a secret technology into the law of the land
If the controversial Analog Hole bill makes it into law, US technologists will have to obey a law whose most important details are a trade-secret.

The entertainment industry, always a bastion of media savvy, has proposed its "A-Hole" bill as a legal means of limiting the conversion of analog music and video to digital files. Under the bill, every maker of a device that can convert analog signals to digital ones (like iPods, camcorders, and PCs) would be required by law to be built with a detector for a proprietary watermarking technology called VEIL (the use of free/open source in these technologies would be outlawed to prevent the removal of VEIL detectors).

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/23/ahole_bill_would_mak.html



Posted: Tue - January 24, 2006 at 09:31 AM            

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