Bill would prevent sharing of digital music, video

USA Today ^ | March 22, 2002 | Reuters

[Lost Highway]

You can make a law against anything. Let's seem them enforce it.

[Mr. Thorne]

Didn't I say that?

[Dimensio]

So, under this bill, would I not be allowed to watch a TV show I recorded for not being home?

No, the networks are using civil lawsuits to challenge the legality of television program time-shifting. If those fail then they will likely seek legislative action.

[js1138]

Steppenwolf never sounded better

Trying to take that seriously...

A lot of music was mixed to sound good on table radios and factory car radios. Sometimes the fm/cd mix just sounds overly symphonic and dry white wine with quiche.

[bloodmeridian]

No one every concurred with you before?

[Harrison Bergeron]

"A lot of music was mixed to sound good on table radios and factory car radios."

And some was mixed to sound good to thirteen year old boys who were hearing it from inside a closet where they were making out with their steady girlfriend...

Like I said, Steppenwolf never sounded better.

[Stavka2]

I'd love to see the encryption standard that they will come up with that can not be broken or circumvented. As soon as they put the decryption key on a "legal" play device, some one is going to swipe the chip and decoompile and decode the encryption and then you're back to step one. After all, though, half these old bastards can't even figure out email, but they'll make silly laws on tech.

[Stavka2]

The worst part is that to go through the whole creation to bringing to market process on a CD is 50 cents. Oh, but they tried this crap with tapes too.

[Stavka2]

So will a whole new bureocracy have to be created? The DVD player cops with broad search powers?

[Thud]

The anti-ripping thingie must be a piece of hardware with components manufactured in every congressional district, and every computer sold in America must have one.

[bigdog]

"There's way toooooo much copyin' goin' on out dere." Sen. Foghorn Leghorn said; or, that's what he meant to say.

[Snerdley]

try WinMx again, but read through http://www.trippymx.co.uk/ first. You can change your server list to allow many more popular servers and get thousands of songs for your queries.

[Mr. Thorne]

Not often...

[bloodmeridian]

Mark this date, then.

[Bobalu]

I'm paranoid, but not that paranoid. You are suggesting that home recording would be impossible

There is simply NO way to protect audio/video content using hardware/software as long as the system allows ANY homemade content to be played... If any format is left open enough so that joe sixpack can record videos of the wife and kiddies and play that content on any computer then all bootlegs will be processed to mimic that format.

They want the hardware controls to be in the video and audio hardware.... they want to engineer motherboards that will only work with secure add on cards. The cards won't allow a data stream to be played unless it is digitally signed by a recognized authority.. Your home content will never play on this sort of system... if it did then the protection system would be fatally flawed.

And yes... hollyweird is crazy enough to try and get this sort of police state legislation passed... and yes the government and the people are stoopid enough to let them get away with it.... just remember that the gov once passed prohibition!

We may be looking at computers that have restricted ports,drives,i/o cards,mobos,op-systems... :-(

[Mr. Thorne]

I'm planning a celebration. I faced the choice of cookies or donuts, and then I thought of the commercial: "A cookie is just a cookie, but a donut is sugar and cake, deep fried," so naturally, I chose donuts.

What? That's not the commercial?

Huh.

Oh. Well, it oughtta be!

Donuts forever!

[js1138]

On the other hand, current systems will be operable for 5-10 years. And the black market will be terrific.

Intel is opposed because they see their upgrade market going the way of DAT.

If the law is passed there will be a surge in buying old equipment, hoarding, followed by massive resistance to new products.

[Dimensio]

So will a whole new bureocracy have to be created? The DVD player cops with broad search powers?

Do remember that the RIAA wanted a rider to the PATRIOT act that would specifically allow computer security break-ins if committed by "copyright holders". In other words the RIAA wanted the government to allow them to break into private computers in search of copyright violations.

[Paul C. Jesup]

This bill is not about MP3s. It's about banning technology and trying to force everyone back to the 20'th Century. If that bill is passed into law, EVERY computer owner in this country (you, me, the person next door) would become outlaws. Also, it would send the economy into a depression and piss off nearly the entire population.

That is how WARS are started.

[Quix]

ANYTHING that would prevent consumers from taking THEIR PERSONAL SELECTIONS OF PREFERRED SONGS ETC. OFF A SOLD COLLECTION and THEN making their own personally preferred collection or even a diversity of personal use collections--strikes me as unfair, stupid and a huge ripoff. I HOPE SOMEHOW, WE CAN PREVENT SUCH AN END RESULT.