At 11:19 AM 5/24/02 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

In the name of protecting their business model, the MPAA proposes that every analog/digital (A/D) converter - one of the most basic of chips - be required to check for US government mandated copyright flags.

Amazing how the fates are turning yesterday's black humor into reality.. At 11:19 AM 5/24/02 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

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

Reminds me of some others getting ghabberflasted too:

I'm apoplectic at the sheer chutzpah. ---Stanton McCandlish (on some other e-atrocity-law/powergrab)

Ok. That's pretty much my limit. ---"Black Unicorn" on DCMA bust of Russian reverse engineer of Adobe tools

And various things others have said about draining the Potomoc swamps...