Congressional copycats - Los Angeles Times
The bill aims to prevent pirates from slipping through the analog hole to copy movies or television programs, then converting them into digital files that could be swapped on the Internet or burned onto DVDs. It would require any new device that receives an analog video signal — including TV tuners, computers and TiVos — to be equipped with technology to limit copying and redistribution online.What IP crypto-pinko-commies wrote this? The LA Times, the hometown paper for Big Content. When the paper in a company town thinks it's a bad idea, it's a bad idea.
The measure, which is expected to draw fire from some computer and consumer-electronics companies, would give Hollywood unprecedented control over what people do with the programs that come into their homes. Studios could force TiVos and other digital recorders to erase pay-per-view or on-demand movies stored for more than 90 minutes. New computers could be prevented from showing copyprotected programs, such as a movie downloaded from an online store, in high definition.
