[ale] Microsoft's 1984

[Pete Hardie]

The ironic thing about all this being done to protect the corporate content 
(MPAA, RIAA) is that it will fail - sure we won't get the original digital 
content, but all it takes is one Taiwanese hacker with a high-end A2D setup to 
get a 1st gen analog copy digitized, and it *won't* have any keys or digital 
watermarks.  Then it will be usable on any system, because it will look like the 
content a user has created himself.

The first time a user can't watch his own digital home movies because the 
TCPA+Palladium crap thinks it's unauthorized, and there will be a grassroots 
defenestration.




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Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
     posting from, but not     |
	speaking for:             |
Scientific Atlanta, Digital Video Services Group



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