FLUSHED with its success in defeating P2P pirates, the movie industry is lobbying to get senators to back a plan to ban on making digital copies of analogue recordings.
Called the "Analog Hole" bill, it will make anyone who makes a digital copy of a telly program or a film from an analogue signal into a pirate.
Hollywood tried something similar with the Broadcast Flag bill, which went no-where and covered only television recievers. This one will covers everything with an analogue input including computers, video recorders and tellies.
The big idea is that Hollywood can decide if you can copy an analog video signal for your own use and will delete it according to its own rules.
It could be the kiss of death to any high-res digitisation being built into modern telly and video gear, because users will not effectively have any control over it. More
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The INQuirer