Battleangel

Or analog hole. It’s not difficult to figure out who the a-holes are in this story of government aided corporate abuse.

TechNewsWorld - Congress is leaving a special gift under the tree for Hollywood’s film industry. Just before closing for the holidays, legislators introduced a new proposal designed to curb redistribution of movies.

The Digital Transition Content Security Act would embed anticopying technology into the next generation of digital video products. If it makes its way from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office and becomes law, the measure will outlaw the manufacture or sale of electronic devices that convert analog video signals into digital video signals, effective one year from its enactment. PC-based tuners and digital video recorders are listed among the devices.

The analog hole, also known as the analog reconversion problem, is a fundamental vulnerability in copy prevention schemes, according to supporters of the bill.

Most likely it will never pass. But if it does, one can be sure that this will, as usual, not be contained to the US mainland but rather trickle down through the Imperium Americanum until the entire world, at least those who don’t want to be left in the “gap” are in on it.