And about our right to bear arms, it will take a constitutional amendment to stamp that out. Do you know of anyone who would vote for that? I certianly don’t. It’s just like people saying that by the 2008 elections, the Republicans will find a way to get the terminator into the oval office. Good luck as that is also in the constitution that the President of the US must be a natural born citizen.

I suppose the gist of this arguement centers around digital tv signals.

They say that the old tried and true analog tv set that are imported from china and sold at walmart will be the thing of the past.

So how can a watermark be used to keep people from cooking hollywood movies on their computers ?

Something that would even make slysoft and dvdfab worthless?

In theory the only way the cartels would be able to do this if every motherboard that was ever meant for sale in the united states had a chip installed on the motherboard that would detect a water mark or checksum on the dvd and prevent the dvd from being copied.

It might be a derivative of the technology involved in fingerprint indentication.

I see this in action where i work at a military base where fingerprint indentication is used to check in and out vehicle keys in a computer driven key storage system.

This might sound like a very elaborate and expensive proposition.

I want to ask the rest of you Would this be technically feasible?

As it stands today a css encoded dvd will prevent the operating system and the dvd burner from reading the dvd vob files.

Actually a working drm model of such a thing would be cheaper built on a motherboard rather than installing the drm on a computer chip.

Recently i heard that microsoft came out with a new operating system that was immediatly slammed because microsoft had made claims that illegal cd and dvd ripping would be more difficult.

Microsoft denies all of these allegations.

I suppose the gist of this arguement centers around digital tv signals.

They say that the old tried and true analog tv set that are imported from china and sold at walmart will be the thing of the past.

So how can a watermark be used to keep people from cooking hollywood movies on their computers ?

In theory the only way the cartels would be able to do this if every motherboard that was ever meant for sale in the united states had a chip installed on the motherboard that would detect a water mark or checksum on the dvd and prevent the dvd from being copied.I

t might be a derivative of the technology involved in fingerprint indentication.

I see this in action where i work at a military base where fingerprint indentication is used to check in and out vehicle keys in a computer driven key storage system.

This might sound like a very elaborate and expensive proposition.

I want to ask the rest of you Would this be technically feasible?

As it stands today a css encoded dvd will prevent the operating system and the dvd burner from reading the dvd vob files.

Actually a working drm model of such a thing would be cheaper built on a motherboard rather than installing the drm on a computer chip.

Recently i heard that microsoft came out with a new operating system that was immediatly slammed because microsoft had made claims that illegal cd and dvd ripping would be more difficult.

Microsoft denies all of these allegations.

They say that the old tried and true analog tv set that are imported from china and sold at walmart will be the thing of the past.

So how can a watermark be used to keep people from cooking hollywood movies on their computers ?

In theory the only way the cartels would be able to do this if every motherboard that was ever meant for sale in the united states had a chip installed on the motherboard that would detect a water mark or checksum on the dvd and prevent the dvd from being copied.I

t might be a derivative of the technology involved in fingerprint indentication.

I see this in action where i work at a military base where fingerprint indentication is used to check in and out vehicle keys in a computer driven key storage system.

This might sound like a very elaborate and expensive proposition.

I want to ask the rest of you Would this be technically feasible?

As it stands today a css encoded dvd will prevent the operating system and the dvd burner from reading the dvd vob files.

Actually a working drm model of such a thing would be cheaper built on a motherboard rather than installing the drm on a computer chip.

Recently i heard that microsoft came out with a new operating system that was immediatly slammed because microsoft had made claims that illegal cd and dvd ripping would be more difficult.

Microsoft denies all of these allegations.

Tho i can see the tech industry outside the US already rubbing their hands in glee. After all, as long as they provide assurances that their products won’t be made available in the us they don’t have to comply with this legislation at all.

It wouldn’t be their fault then if the US public started illegally importing the non locked down tech into the US, now would it?

Are you kidding? Right wing militias predate slick willy by a long time. Cripes, I’d say the klan is (and was) a right wing militia of sorts. I’m not taking issue with the basic message of your post, but the time line part is way off.

Something the industry didn’t count on.

Our congressional leaders work on the theory that
“What the public doesn’t know, won’t keep us from being reelected”.

Because of the efforts of sites like this, The EFF, and other
similar organizations, word spread. People were outraged, wrote letters, threatened to send their votes elsewhere, and
our “leaders” backed off.

The industry COUNTS on word never getting out. That USED to be easy, since they control, directly or financially, all mainstream media.

This no longer true.
We’ve proved it.

So,
DON”T GIVE UP !

Spread the word.
Write your congressmen.
Let them know, in no uncertain terms, that if they are FOR
this, you feel they are no longer suitable for public office.

Dreddsnik.

What is really needed is for the technology industry to stand up and have their say in this once and for all. The entertainment industry exists at the sole sufferance of the tech industry, not the other way around as the MPAA & RIAA seem to think. Exactly what is the total contribution to gross national income of the tech industry versus the entertainment industry anyways? We all know the answer to that. And guess who makes all the cameras and equipment the entertainment industry requires to make their product? Or all the gear required to build and operate theaters, and the equipment required so that regular folks buy and view the entertainment industries products at home? Who allows the entertainment industry to even make money in the first place?

If everyone thinks this law is going to have a huge impact on the people, just think of the technological sector. It’s going to be even bigger of an impact on them because it’s going to severely hamper what they can and cannot do by shackling their hands behind their backs for all time. What happens when other, more sane countries, outlaw such technological tampering because it tramples users rights? Tech companies are going to have to put in the resources to make both hampered and non-hampered models of absolutely everything they make, or simply not bother selling their wares in those countries anymore. In the short term it’s probably not much of a bother for them to do so since the infrastructure is more than likely already in place to do so, but think of the long term costs and loss of sales! People won’t want equipment that limits them in anyway. They’ve proven that already. What they want, and always will want, is equipment that not just allows them to do whatever they want with what they’ve paid good money for (and that includes the distribution media too), but they want it to be simple and easy to use. Unfortunately that is the problem with everyone these days (except for a rare few); they’re much too short sighted to see all of the long term problems that new laws like these are certainly going to create. In which case I, and others like myself, should be asking, why should I even bother to care at all anymore…?

I wonder what would happen of the people of this country elected a Libertarian or Constitution Party member as President instead of a Democrat-Republican. The only ways I can see that we can assert our liberties is either flushing the toilet (government offices) enough times to get rid of the shit or civil war. I would much rather do it by getting rid of all the criminals in political office.