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Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug "analog hole," regulate A-D
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Armbrust)
Fri May 31 11:53:17 2002
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:32:04 -0600
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Mark Armbrust <mark.armbrust@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <1022711534.17534.3254.camel@jimsguin>
Jim Hughes <jim@storage.network.com> writes:
>Imagine *if* there is a mandated change that there be some kind of
>digital content filter in all D-A and *if* there is *any* probability at
>all (no matter how small) that non-copyrighted material will trigger
>this, would you put your life into the hands of a machine that will kill
>you if all of the redundant D-A converters fail at exactly the same time
>because of this "feature"?!
Imagine it's 2020: as you and your family ride by the one remaining
drive-in theater in America, your car's autopilot goes blind...
So I see exceptions in the law for critical systems.
And I see hackers parking their cars in front of their TVs and tapping into
the car's autopilot.
So we need a law to prevent people from putting TV's in their garages.
And some way for Them to know if I have a TV in my garage.
...
Check out Baen Books' experience with freely available books on the web --
sales has gone UP.
(http://www.baen.com/library/)
--Mark
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