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The MPAA Goes To Washington, the Sequel

Filed in archive Government , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on December 20, 2005

Or "And I'll thank you to keep your grubby little fingers away from my analog hole"

Those crazy movie fellahs are at it again. They're going for the grand slam with The Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005. This legislation will force any technology turning an Analog signallinks into a digital one to enforce content protection. This ensures Hollywood and not the consumer controls copying on the consumer's own devices.

John Paczkowski at Silicon Valley writes:

"What a poor, poor justification for a bill that will gut our fair use rights once and for all and leave us at the mercy of a content cartel intent on charging us not only for the product it peddles, but for the ways we choose to use it."

Ken "Caesar" Fisher adds:

"Someday, if the MPAA gets its way, you are going to pay for the right to timeshift (or for the right to placeshift). ... You are going to pay for the right to move videos to your iPod or to your PSP. No one cares if you spent US$20 on that Blu-ray disc. In 5 years, you'll be lucky if you can even play stuff you've purchased without relicensing it. Look at ringtones. Here we're talking about a related industry that wants to scare people into paying for ringtones, even if they already have an album with the song they want on it. Ringtones! Are you kidding me?"



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