MPAA Analogue Blocking Plans

[GhostShip]

This subject folks is being reffered to as the "A-Hole" debate, your guesses are as good as mine over the origin of that one but when the MPAA are behind you look out for your rights.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/27/mpaa_exec_cant_sell_.html

Brad Hunt, the CTO of the MPAA, got an angry reception from a bunch of Hollywood tech-providers when he presented the MPAA's "A-hole" filtering plan.
For a couple years now, the MPAA has been promising to "plug the Analog Hole" by getting the government to pass a law crippling all recorders, so that they'll refuse to record anything with a secret watermark that says it's a copyrighted work (heaven help you if your son's first steps take place in the living room while the TV's playing -- your camcorder will be of no use).

Hunt gave the talk to a group of high-tech suppliers who provide entertainment technology for Hollywood and its viewers, and they greeted the A-hole proposal with the skepticism it deserves.

I for one will not be partaking of any built in DRM and traditional rights stealing technology.
If the MPAA want something from me let them pay me for it until then the A hole I have is mine to use. 

[Lysander]

It's even worse than that, the watermark system they're proposing has a license agreement where you have to pay Veil 10000 dollars just to look at the specs to see how it works. How many senators do you think actually borhered to do that before just signing it into law?