[JeffB]

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/47939.html

[Folsom]

Ok but digital to digital and for the last eighty years or so analog to analog has been ok ?

No TV tuner cards for PC? Etc? Hmmm if this is so, then my card that never sold on here will be worth a lot more

However they can "suck a dunk" (sorry I love that phrase, from Jay in some Jay and Silent Bob movie, does it mean any thing?), if you pay for the service and equipment you are entitled to do what you want with it I think. Well of course excluding selling any thing, or claiming to be some one you are not like the TV station or what ever, from doing what ever you want. I hate stuff like this that says making copies of your own stuff is not ok. Durr I own this CD and the material makeup of it, including every dimple or dash, as well as a computer, the writable discs etc.... You can assured know I will make copies of my good CD's to play in my car, I refuse to scratch up eleven to fifteen dollars a pop CD's when I can use seventeen cent CD's. In no way to I claim to be or represent any of my CD's as a product of any record label etc, and do not sell them, they can "suck a dunk".

What are people with non-digital cameras suppose to do? This means you will no longer be able to has pictures developed and receive a CD with the pictures on it. Non-digital camcorders will be obsolete; I refuse the idea of forcing any one into buying digital camcorders. Forcing any one to purchase any thing is WRONG, just like the idea of forcing people to have cars older then so many years smashed, so they have to buy a new one.

I though we had a republican goverment, while not liberal they are far from being republican.

[ctviggen]

There is absolutely no way they're getting rid of the DVR.  Cable companies are all over DVRs and even use them themselves (how else could "on demand" happen?).

[JeffB]

This legislation also implies that all your copying is for illegal use.  What if you made a home movie with your cam-corder and decide you want to put it on your computer for safe keeping or for video editing.

[Folsom]

This legislation also implies that all your copying is for illegal use.  What if you made a home movie with your cam-corder and decide you want to put it on your computer for safe keeping or for video editing.

Exactly! That is why I think they are the devil incarnate if they are going to force people to buy digital camera's to do that.

You guys need to think about the way these laws, this controversial, usually work. -

They usually never fully implement one of these laws. The trick is the implement some sort of new licensing "technology" and all of the above that every one will be required to use and pay for. The way to out landish concepts of law never happen in the form of a set law, they happen in the form of controlling laws that require the use of money.

This is like the crack down on motorcycles, they are not going to wipe them off the face of the earth, but they are going to make it a lot more expensive for every one, money collection.

I can see it now, needing an internet connection to verify authenticity of your own camcorder recordings etc, and programs that only allow you to do so much with them, tags on every captured piece of video that prevents burning them to a disc with out a final copy and authorization over the internet or some sort of payment.