Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-04 Thread w9ya
Here, here: I vote we bring up the "stupid" part for another vote. Not So Anonymous P.S guess who said this: "Hide your women and children, congress is in session." > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:39:04AM -0500, Krzysztof Kamieniecki wrote: >> >> Coincidentally I am moving into Congress Meeha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-03 Thread Marcus Leech
John Clark wrote: Hey, at least New Zealand has WETA... Having spent time in New Zealand, I can say that I love the place far too much to drag myself and all my american geeks friends down to live there, thus spoiling it forever :-) :-)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-03 Thread John Clark
Joshua Lackey schrieb: Quoting LRK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Start reading up on Argentina folks. It's your future. What about New Zealand? Hey, at least New Zealand has WETA... ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-03 Thread Joshua Lackey
Quoting LRK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > > Start reading up on Argentina folks. It's your future. > What about New Zealand? -- Joshua Lackey, PhD. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org htt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> LRK wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: 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. Un

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread LRK
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote: > > 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

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread John Clark
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: 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 requir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
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 requir

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> John Clark wrote: Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: > Marcus Leech wrote: If they get their way, devices like the USRP would be illegal. Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Al Because the device can digitize a 'video signal'(or any other signal with in its band, or signals translated

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
Leech, Marcus [CAR:1A12:EXCH] wrote: On the "ashamed to be an engineer" aspect--look at the ARDG (Analog Reconversion Discussion Group) page at the http://www.ctpwg.org website. Given the large number of technology submissions to this group, there must be plenty of engineers who actuall

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread John Clark
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. schrieb: > Marcus Leech wrote: If they get their way, devices like the USRP would be illegal. Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Al Because the device can digitize a 'video signal'(or any other signal with in its band, or signals translated to its band...), and does

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote: Why Marcus? I don't understand ... Just in case that wasn't sarcasm. On the "ashamed to be an engineer" aspect--look at the ARDG (Analog Reconversion Discussion Group) page at the http://www.ctpwg.org website. Given the large number of technology submission

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread LRK
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:39:04AM -0500, Krzysztof Kamieniecki wrote: > > Coincidentally I am moving into Congress Meehan's district this month. He is > on > the "Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property" > http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.aspx?committee=3 whic

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Alfred A. Aburto Jr.
> Marcus Leech wrote: I can't decide whether the right response to this is to laugh or cry. Or pour 1.5e8 litres of concrete around the MPAA headquarters, and the U.S. Patent Office. In effect, they want to require that all high-speed A/Ds have "watermark detection" capability, and shut th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Krzysztof Kamieniecki
Coincidentally I am moving into Congress Meehan's district this month. He is on the "Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property" http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.aspx?committee=3 which will be holding a hearing on the evil ANALOG Hole. I spoke to one of his aids,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-02 Thread Marcus Leech
I can't decide whether the right response to this is to laugh or cry. Or pour 1.5e8 litres of concrete around the MPAA headquarters, and the U.S. Patent Office. In effect, they want to require that all high-speed A/Ds have "watermark detection" capability, and shut themselves down like obedi

[Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

2005-11-01 Thread Krzysztof Kamieniecki
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004106.php ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio