Hollywood doesn't want you creating video files.

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Originally Posted by omgslashdot

"BoingBoing has an interesting article about a joint RIAA/MPAA move started yesterday on capital hill. From the article: 'Hollywood has fielded a shockingly ambitious piece of Analog Hole legislation while everyone was out partying in costume. Under a new proposed Analog Hole bill, it will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either has all its outputs approved by the Hollywood studios, or is closed-source, proprietary and tamper-resistant. The idea is to make it impossible to create an MPEG from a video signal unless Hollywood approves it.'"

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Honestly, I'm not worried because eventually, EVERYTHING is hacked. This still sucks SEVERELY, though. What assholes.

The hackers are probably bored anyway. They could use a challenge.

There has to be more to this story. I'm sure somebody (either Slashdot or ChaoofNee) is confused...

so you can't upload your digital camera home movies without permission? Yeah... good luck hollywood... Also - fuck off.

haha, I hope Tivo takes 'em to school

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Originally Posted by cka

haha, I hope Tivo takes 'em to school

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Holy shit, didn't even realize it. This would kinda deem TiVo as illegal, wouldn't it? I'm sure it could be avoided if they added a fee or some shit, but still.
Man, this greedy entertainment MegaZord sucks.

Not just Tivo, but ANYTHING that can record into a digital format. This means that any and all DVRs (be it TiVo or some home-made shuttle HTPC running MythTV), DVD recorder decks, DVDRW drives, hell even VCRs might take a hit if this wacky bullshit doesn't fall through.

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Originally Posted by station82o

so you can't upload your digital camera home movies without permission? Yeah... good luck hollywood... Also - fuck off.

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That's exactly why there is no way this could happen. I cannot fathom the idea that this will get through, even with some of the stuff our government pulls sometimes. The fight over the Broadcast Flag would be nothing compared to this, and that was/is a big enough mess for them.

I don't see this working out for Hollywood.

Do they propose criminalizing devices and programs everyone already owns? ACLU is going to rip this idea a new asshole.

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Originally Posted by cka

Not just Tivo, but ANYTHING that can record into a digital format. This means that any and all DVRs (be it TiVo or some home-made shuttle HTPC running MythTV), DVD recorder decks, DVDRW drives, hell even VCRs might take a hit if this wacky bullshit doesn't fall through.

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Wait a minute, didn't they already go through this shit when VCR's were released?