The RIAA's Halloween Tricks 670
deus42 writes "BoingBoing has an interesting article about a joint RIAA/MPAA move started yesterday on Capitol 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.'"
Digitize this (Score:5, Funny)
Remember (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:5, Funny)
..prise my analog hole from my cold, dead hands (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Digitize this (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a sec, the A'Hole bill? (Score:3, Funny)
Foxtrot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:5, Funny)
To save time... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dear RIAA/MPAA: (Score:1, Funny)
On second thought, I don't think I want to know.. (On third thought I'm pretty sure I don't want to know)
If technology is outlawed... (Score:5, Funny)
And that would make all of the geeks rogue outlaw bad-boy types, which would make them suddenly very appealing to women, so maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all.
Re:And this means... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And no matter what they do... (Score:2, Funny)
Now I know you're lying. This is slashdot.
Re:And no matter what they do... (Score:4, Funny)
But the date didn't end with sex.
It ended in him mocking her because of her beliefs on copyright law.
Certainly very slashdot.
Hollywood (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A modest proposal (Score:3, Funny)
Your proposal intrigues me, sir. I wish to support you in your endevor to have this passed by congress, only I feel a bit unsure about the best way to lobby such a bill....
Re:And thus... (Score:5, Funny)
Why not? You've got the US beat by at least one.
No Effect! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Digitize this (Score:5, Funny)
I can think of a hole I'd like them to approve...
Oh, I know, I know: the anal-og hole!
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:4, Funny)
That, or he entered a coma in November of 2000, and just woke up...
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:5, Funny)
They're way ahead of you- their next move is to regulate opposable thumbs.
Re:Digitize this (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, "Ogg" has 2 G's.
Unless you meant Anal Log Hole... but do you really want to subject them to your "Anal Log"? If so, I recommend we leave a couple on their doorstep, to show exactly what kind of law they are trying to legislate.
Solomon Chang
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd mod you (+1, Insightful) for pointing out the need for (+1, Depressing).
I'm hoping for a (+1, Insightful) for pointing out that I use (+1, Informative) as a substitute for (+1, Depressing), thereby resulting in a recursive moderation to (+5, Funny) for this post.
Re:A modest proposal (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And no matter what they do... (Score:4, Funny)
It depends on if you're sitting up or laying back.
Re:Digitize this (Score:5, Funny)
METHOD OF... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:3, Funny)
Or just attach it as one of many riders on the latest save the children bill.
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:1, Funny)
(Sorry. I'll crawl back to my dark corner of the basement now.)
Re:OH JOY, LET'S READ ON... (Score:5, Funny)
Aaaaarghh! (Score:1, Funny)
riaa.com [riaa.com]
Oh, and who are they to declare themselves owner of all video recording...? Ooh, lets flood their inbox, (e-mail webmaster@riaa.org [mailto]!!)
Re:Digitize this (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Digitize this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"This land is my land..." NOW GET THE HELL OUT! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't know which is more ridiculous... (Score:3, Funny)
Correcting him by telling him that you were just making a terminator probably wouldn't have gone down too well then...
Re:Digitize this (Score:3, Funny)
Your terms are acceptable.
- The MPAA
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