"Analog hole" legislation introduced

Ars Technica ^ | 18 December 2005 | Eric Bangeman

[ShadowAce]

[M203M4]

Tee-hee. You said analog hole.

[Yo-Yo]

The Broadcast Flag rears it's ugly head again.

[ThinkDifferent]

These idiots never learn. They wanted to ban the VCR, and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into billions of dollars in profits from selling tapes. Now if they get their way here, they'll find that piracy will increase tremendously, because "legitimate" content will be crippled to the point of uselessness.

[Constitution Day]

Don't be such an analoghole.

[Semper Paratus]

I love what Congress considers a priority.

[proxy_user]

It will interesting to see how such a law would affect the manufacturers of turntables, cartridges, and vinyl records. Would they be covered?

[BostonianRightist]

...that poses such a dire threat to the survival of the music and movie industries.

No. Bad movies and liberal agendas are the threat to the movie indunstry.

[proxy_user]

Upon consideration, I think it would be the manufacturers of phono preamps that are affected.

[canuck_conservative]

Not to worry, some teenager will soon figure out how to crack the protection codes.

[ShadowAce]

Whenever I see things like this, I keep remembering the line from "Star Wars" where Leia told the General "The more you tighten you grip, the more will slip out of your grasp."

[CORedneck]

Another piece of authoritarian legislation from Sensenbrenner just like his shoved through Real ID Act of 2005. I have to say that it is time to get rid of these "Neo-Conservatives" through the ballot box just like RINO's and replace them with true conservatives like Bob Barr and Dick Armey.

[coconutt2000]

If record and movie studios put as much effort into producing stuff people would be compelled to buy at the prices they charge they'd be well ahead of the piracy curve.

iTunes does so well because the music and television shows are priced attractively for what you get.

[antiRepublicrat]

Here we go again. And I don't have a congresscritter on this committee to set straight.

Now we just get to wait for Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) to introduce it on the Senate side again.

[mountainlyons]

This is discrimination. Many of us are hard of hearing and these guys keep making things to play better and better music which at least 30% of us can't hear. Why can't these guys make something to only amplify and modify things for us that can not hear too well?

[Paul C. Jesup]

This law would also make it illegal for internet to function.

Everything from ADSL to basic modem phoneline technology works by changing information packets back and forth from analog to digital.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I believe Anderson Cooper pronounces it anal log hole.

[KarlInOhio]

Hollings left the Senate in January 2005.

[Petronski]

Ouch.