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Re: Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs"

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
18 Dec 2005 12:28:05 -0800

Monty Solomon wrote:

> The government is proposing that devices (consumer electronics,
> computers, software) manufactured after a certain date respond to a
> copy-protection signal or watermark in a digital video stream, and
> pass along that signal when converting the video to analog. The same
> goes for analog video streams, to pass on the protection to the
> digital video outputs.

Very disturbing.

I don't think this is being proposed by the "government", but rather
private industry.

I find this most objectionable as it prevents me from personally using
recordings I have properly purchased and will force me to either buy
duplicate copies I don't need or replacement playback equipment I
neither want nor need.

For example, I make my own audio tapes using selections from various
sources I have -- phonograph, other tapes, CDs. I play these tapes in
the car, while I walk, or at work. This proposal would preclude me
from doing so and I resent that.

Just out of curiosity, do radio stations have to pay a royalty to
record companies when they play music? What are the rules, if any,
for someone recording a song off the radio or a tape off of TV?

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