Dropped Stories
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Brain interface tech is all the rage.
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Death by DCMA
- The cool devices we'll never see thanks to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
- IEE Spectrum online article by Fred von Lohmann and Wendy Seltzer.
- 1998 DMCA is passed, supposedly to help in the fight agains piracy.
- Gives copyright holder new rights to control the way copyrighted material is used.
- Also provides protection for technologies designed to restrict access or copying. DRM anyone?
- Piracy has increased.
- Consumer electonics categories and your ability to do certain things with your media have been wiped out.
- Company that sold DVR's which skipped commercials bankrupted because tv execs want to sell commercial time. They called skipping commercials "theft".
- You can't copy a dvd you bought to your computer because you have to get past the encryption.
- DMCA like laws are spreading worldwide.
- Laws often enacted to secure trade agreements with the US, a form of blackmail.
- US entertainment companies now want even more restrictive legislation
- In TV
- They want to force all devices to recognise protected television broadcasts and potentially refuse to copy them.
- You will not be able to legally develop a device that can recieve DTV without incorporating one of Hollywood's protection technologies.
- In music and radio
- They want to prevent or restrict the manufacture of hard disk recorders for digital audio.
- These rules would force future digital recorders to ape the analog cassette recorders of decades past
- The RIAA would prevent users from storing individual song tracks, searching by title or artist, or creating playlists.
- Analog to Digital Convertere
- They to restrict the connections new digital devices can make with analog devices.
- They also want to regulate anything that converts from analog to digital, this can include your digital camera!
- Protecting content is turning into technology and innovation regulation.
