On Fri, 24 May 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:

My mind has been boggled, my flabbers have been ghasted.

Yes. It is not really possible to put into words just how insane this is is it? I'm gonna try to sit down with a senator's aide who's working on this as soon as possible, I think the guys from wisconsin on on the judiciary committee..

---------------------------------------------------------- http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/23/2355237.shtml?tid=97 - start quote - MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!

Posted by jamie on Friday May 24, @09:30AM from the op-amp dept.

A month ago, the MPAA filed its report [PDF][1] with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terrors of analog copying. I quote: "in order to help plug the hole, watermark detectors would be required in" -- are you sitting down? -- "all devices that perform analog to digital conversions." At their page Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age[2],

Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike