FC: Hollywood wants to plug "analog hole," regulate A-D

Morlock Elloi morlockelloi at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 2 17:27:43 PDT 2002


> continuing to watch your old video tapes on your old VCR is not an
> option after the upgrade and registration deadline for these
> infringement devices has passed.

Actually, for the last one or two years it's already illegal to sell or re-sell
(even used) VCRs without macrovision shit.

What will determine the outcome of this war is future availability of universal
openly-programmable computing platforms (aka pee-cees). We will probably see
regulations following those for handguns: for the first few decades everyone
sported them, then they became heavily regulated.

So expect a 5-year federal care for possession of an "unlocked" PC within one
mile from schoolyard or an airport. 



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