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Save your DVR - Digital Transition Content Security Act

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 http://news.com.com/Pro-Hollywood+bi...3-6001825.html

http://static.publicknowledge.org/pd...nalog-Hole.pdf


Digital video recorders with analog tuners or inputs would only be allowed to record "copy-prohibited" shows for 90 minutes. After that, the digital recording must be "destroyed or otherwise rendered unusable."


• Analog video output of "copy-prohibited" recordings would be permitted as long as it was to a VGA output with a resolution of no more than 720 pixels by 480 pixels.


• Violations would be punished by civil penalties between $200 and $2,500 per product. Commercial offenders would be imprisoned for up to five years and fined not more than $500,000.


• The two copy-protection systems that must be supported are Video Encoded Invisible Light--used in a Batmobile toy--and Content Generation Management System-Analog. Products manufactured and also sold to consumers before the law's restrictions kick in a year after its enactment would be legal to resell.
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EFF action link:

http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=181
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Nobody care about the DVR 90 minute restriction? Record the copy protected version of "The Sopranos" (or other show) and you have 90 minutes to watch or it self erases.........

Bull puckey.
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Are you describing the new laws passed in Iran? I think you forgot the one with western music being forbiden.
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Saw this elsewhere and hit up the EFF, it's ridiculous that they (MPAA and RIAA) want every analog input everywhere copy protected to prevent conversion to digital medium, i don't think Microsoft will like this one :) it'll put a big hole in the usefulness of MCE.
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Originally Posted by Naylia
Saw this elsewhere and hit up the EFF, it's ridiculous that they (MPAA and RIAA) want every analog input everywhere copy protected to prevent conversion to digital medium, i don't think Microsoft will like this one :) it'll put a big hole in the usefulness of MCE.
Also, the XBOX-360 is an analog device.
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I don't see this happening but will take action at eff non the less.

Thanks for the heads up and the link.
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the RIAA and the MPAA own enough people in congress to get this passed.
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Coming up next: the MPAA attempts to plug the analog hole by poking everyone's eyes out...that way, none of us will be able to see content that we're not "entitled" to see.


In all seriousness, while I expect the MPAA to behave like a bunch of paranoid lunatics, it is sad that they're able to find a couple of political prositutes who are willing to put this rubbish legislation forward. And note for those with partisan axes to grind, the co-sponsors on this legislation include a Republican (James Sensenbrenner Jr.) and a Democrat (John Conyers).
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It will really suck if this gets passed. So much for a bright digital future.
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Originally Posted by telemike
http://news.com.com/Pro-Hollywood+bi...3-6001825.html

http://static.publicknowledge.org/pd...nalog-Hole.pdf


Digital video recorders with analog tuners or inputs would only be allowed to record "copy-prohibited" shows for 90 minutes. After that, the digital recording must be "destroyed or otherwise rendered unusable."


• Analog video output of "copy-prohibited" recordings would be permitted as long as it was to a VGA output with a resolution of no more than 720 pixels by 480 pixels.


• Violations would be punished by civil penalties between $200 and $2,500 per product. Commercial offenders would be imprisoned for up to five years and fined not more than $500,000.


• The two copy-protection systems that must be supported are Video Encoded Invisible Light--used in a Batmobile toy--and Content Generation Management System-Analog. Products manufactured and also sold to consumers before the law's restrictions kick in a year after its enactment would be legal to resell.
Incredible. Hard to believe that some folks think that optical HD recorders (Blu-ray or HDDVD) will allow us to record and archive HDTV broadcasts. Never, never, never going to happen. At least pre-hack :)
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Originally Posted by telemike
Nobody care about the DVR 90 minute restriction? Record the copy protected version of "The Sopranos" (or other show) and you have 90 minutes to watch or it self erases.........

Bull puckey.
Copy Prohibited content, folks.


The only copy prohibited content distributed by most providers is PPV content.


Premium channels like HBO are sent copy once which means you can retain one copy - on your DVR, on D-VHS, whatever (but the device must delete the previous copy after copying it.)
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Are you describing the new laws passed in Iran? I think you forgot the one with western music being forbiden.
If it's our most current popular music they're not missing anything.
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Copy Prohibited content, folks.


The only copy prohibited content distributed by most providers is PPV content.
Just out of curiosity, is that actually in the proposed law? Or is it something that can be changed at the discretion of the content providers once this type of law is in place?
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Reading books is starting to sound good lately.
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Just out of curiosity, is that actually in the proposed law?
The proposed law would only allow PPV, VOD, SVOD and prerecorded media to be marked "copy prohibited" ... yes, that's in the law.

http://static.publicknowledge.org/pd...nalog-Hole.pdf
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But they have things like "HBO on demand". Once this sort of thing was in place, we might have "regular" chanels convert to PPV only...
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As long as you can get around COPY ONCE in theory by hardly ever having COPY ONCE in Practice--Hollywood wins!
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