Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-31 Thread Mark Armbrust
Jim Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine *if* there is a mandated change that there be some kind of digital content filter in all D-A and *if* there is *any* probability at all (no matter how small) that non-copyrighted material will trigger this, would you put your life into the hands of a

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-31 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Nomen Nescio[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters Peter Trei writes: My mind has been boggled, my

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Hughes
I will add one more gallon of fuel to this fire and then sit by and watch it burn... Imagine *if* there is a mandated change that there be some kind of digital content filter in all D-A and *if* there is *any* probability at all (no matter how small) that non-copyrighted material will trigger

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-29 Thread Harry Hawk
From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, it's unlikely that anyone would embed watermarks in billboard ads, or in ads in general. Copying an ad is usually a Good Thing from... It's only the program material which needs protection. Well the talent (models, etc.) in the ads need

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-29 Thread Carl Ellison
At 01:14 PM 5/29/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pete Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:05 AM David G. Koontz wrote: Can you imagine watermarks on billboard advertisements? How subliminal. Actually this would be weird. Suppose digital cameras

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-25 Thread David G. Koontz
R. A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html Hollywood Wants to Plug the Analog Hole *New MPAA report reveals chilling agenda* =The Big Picture= ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed the Content Protection Status

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-25 Thread Ben Cox
David G. Koontz wrote: After hearing about the recent defeat of Sony's copyright protected CDs in Europe with a marketing pen and having visited the above issue on the EFF site, I spend some time thinking up schemes for watermarks detected by ADCs and ways to defeat them. I heard a story