DRM Group Set To Phase Out "Analog Hole" 417
eldavojohn writes "In yet another bid to make your life a little more annoying, our DRM overlords at the AACS Licensing Authority have released a new AACS Adopter Agreement. The riveting, 188-page PDF will inform you that — in the name of Digital Rights Management — there will be new limitations set on devices that decrypt Blu-Ray discs. HDMI already has the awesome encryption of HDCP between the device and the display unit. But Blu-Ray still has the Achilles heel of analog players that allow someone to merely re-encode the analog signal back to an unencrypted digital format. So if you have an analog HDTV, hang on to those analog decoders and hope they never break; by 2013 you won't be able to buy a new one. Ars points out the inherent stupidity in this charade: 'Particularly puzzling is the fact that plugging the so-called "analog hole" won't stop direct digital ripping, enabled by software such as AnyDVD HD. And even the MPAA itself recommends using a camcorder pointed at a TV as a way to make fair use copies, creating another analog hole.' And so the cat and mouse game continues. On that subject, DVD Jon's legit company just brought out a billboard ad for his product doubleTwist next to Apple's San Fransisco store. It reads, 'The Cure for iPhone Envy. Your iTunes library on any device. In seconds.' So while he's busy taunting Apple, I'm certain there are others who might have some free time to look at Blu-Ray and the 'uncrackable' AACS."
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
I for one do not welcome our AACS DRM overlords!
I, for one, welcome our new DRM overlords. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I guess it's time to upgrade (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You mean Blu-ray, right? (Score:2, Funny)
Your journalism teacher just gave you 50% off your paper for misspelling a proper noun.
Good sir, implying I ever took a journalism course or received direction on the subject is libel and slander! Furthermore I hereby demand you retract such a statement or I shall receive satisfaction!
Should you imply I am a journalist again, I may go so far as to insult you with the label of 'lawyer!'
I'm gonna tell them to... (Score:3, Funny)
Kiss my analog hole.
Ther's no TV in Star Trek (Score:5, Funny)
Now I know why TV died in the era of Star Trek. People just got tired of all the DRM.
On the up side, they did invent warp drive and transporters...
So, maybe DRM isn't all bad.
Re:Just wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Then I could turn off any camcorder by displaying the watermark somehow. Depending on how they implemented it, it could maybe be as easy as a printout of a particular frame of the movie.
Then I could just wander around disney land and crashing weddings ruining peoples home videos.