With HR 4569 Congress is now trying to take away your right to legally copy your favorite program and watch it whenever you want to. Tivo will be required to delete your show 90 MINUTES after it finishs taping. If you want to watch it later you will have to pay for a download. Does this make anyone else angry? Enough is enough with DRM. Innovation is suffering, Big Media is gaining complete control over all forms of communication. This bill has far reaching implications not just for TV shows but for governmental control. Call you Cngressman had tell them in no uncertain terms to back off.
1 posted on
01/07/2006 2:43:57 AM PST by
unseen
To: unseen
Born invented the SkipDoctor. < /uselesstrivia >
To: unseen
But, what about audio? If I'm not mistaken, the only way to really close the analog hole for audio is to build a new type of digital speaker…. one that has the digital rights management technology built right into the cones. Not likely. A speaker is, at it's most basic, nothing more than a DC motor. A coil receives pulses of current...positive and negative...that move the cones in the appropriate direction. There is not and never will be anything digital about it.
Unless a completely new type of speaker is designed with a DRM processing gateway in it to allow or disallow DC current to flow to the coil. And that's just plain old stupid.
But since Congress is involved.....hmmmm. Stupid sounds about right.
3 posted on
01/07/2006 2:13:00 PM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
To: unseen
It is contrary to all previous interpretations of the Constitution and flies in the face of "fair use" and "public domain" provisions of the First Amendment.
Throw out the unconstitutional digital copyright act. If not we surely will have the best government that money can BUY.
5 posted on
01/08/2006 12:34:12 AM PST by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
To: unseen
Thankyou for sharing this information with us.
7 posted on
01/08/2006 4:26:10 AM PST by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: unseen; Berosus; blam; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; ...
Congress' desire to protect and support the important entertainment industry
...has nothing whatever to do with the partisan Dhimmicrat support from Hellyweird, I'm sure...
8 posted on
01/15/2006 6:11:03 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: unseen; algore
Somebody ping AlGore. All this comlicated intraweb mumbo-jumbo is confusing to me.
/cavemanlawyer
9 posted on
01/15/2006 6:18:09 PM PST by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
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