"analog hole" - mpaa set on destroying digital video

this past week, while the teenagers were throwing eggs, the twenty-somethings were drinking at parties, and the thirty and forty year olds were taking their kids out and passing out candy, the mpaa proposed a new set of restrictions aimed at creating impossible restrictions on any device capable of creating, converting or transmitting a digital video signal.

this is bad, very bad--it will immediately alleviate us from all the incredible video advancements and developments of the last decade or so, many of which are moving along in a direction that can be perfectly agreeable to the video creation and distribution industries, while protecting the dinosaur model that hollywood demands we all continue to abide by.

This three-part agenda -- controlling digital media devices, controlling analog converters, controlling the Internet -- is a frightening peek at Hollywood's vision of the future.

[via eff]