Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:
Thank you ... but digitization in general is ok, right(?), just can't
do, ahem, "illegal digitization, of video signals" ... the A/D would
detect "illegal digitization" and not allow it, right? As long as it
didn't screw up the A/D processing and software required, this may be
ok I think ...
How does the A/D know what's "illegal". It may, for example, be a
device manufactured in the U.S., but currently doing
analog-to-digital conversions in Rwanda. Where, one hopes, this
nonsense doesn't apply. Even in the U.S., one might
legitimately want to do "fair use" conversions from marked content.
It is not reasonable, in any sense, for an unrelated 3rd party to
dictate what the technology that I *own* can and cannot
be used for. Period.
Imagine for a moment that that Ford motor company wanted to protect its
"brand image", and somehow had technology
that could prevent you from making out in the back seat of their cars,
or driving down certain streets, or at certain
times of day. Imagine that they really didn't want you modifying the
leather seats in any way, or chroming certain
engine parts, and they thought that they had technology that would
accomplish this goal. There would be outrage.
Using highly-fallible (and this ARDG nonsense is demonstrably
highly-fallible) technology to assert social/political/legal
control is just simply bad. It will, ultimately, be the downfall of
western technocracy. Unless we stop it now.
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