[Boing Boing Blog] Cruelty to Analog: the effort to plug the analog hole

[R. A. Hettinga]

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From: "Cory Doctorow" <doctorow at craphound.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:19:09 -0800
Subject: [Boing Boing Blog] Cruelty to Analog: the effort to plug the
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The Motion Picture Association of America's <http://www.cptwg.org>Copy
Protection Technical Working Group -- the same people who gave us mandatory
DVD use-control systems and proposed the dread
<http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org>broadcast flag mandate -- have struck a new
working group to "plug the analog hole." This group is working to make it
impossible to digitize an analog signal without a copyright-holder's
permission, which means that, for example, politicians could transmit
campaign-promise speeches that you can't record to hold them to later.

The group, called the Analog Reconversion Discussion Group (ARDG --
pronounced "Argh!") is hewing to the secretive principles that kept the
Broadcast Flag negotiation out of the public eye. The press may not attend
its meetings or sit in on its phone calls. However, anyone not working for
the press with $100 and a plane ticket to LAX may attend the meetings and
report on their proceedings.

So EFF has started a new blog to chronicle the negotiation, called "Cruelty
to Analog." The blog will be updated with reports from each of the ARDG's
meetings, its draft documents and position papers -- all the news that's
fit to blog. These people are engaged in a horse-trading exercise with your
fair-use and free-speech rights. If you can't make it to LA for the monthly
meeting, shouldn't you at least be keeping track of what they're doing to
your rights? <http://analog.blogs.eff.org/>Link
<http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/CMp339AnbNX>Discuss

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Posted by Cory Doctorow to <http://boingboing.net/>Boing Boing Blog at
1/17/2003 8:19:02 AM


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