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| | Analog hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The analog hole (sometimes analog reconversion problem or analog reconversion issue) is a fundamental vulnerability in copy prevention schemes for noninteractive digital content which is intended to be played back using analog means. | | | Although the technical possibility of making digital recordings from analog outputs has existed for some time, it was not necessarily viewed as a "hole" before widespread deployments of DRM in the late 1990s. | | | When the information is converted to a perceptible analog form, there are no restrictions on the resulting analog signal, and the content can be captured back into digital form with no restrictions. |
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| | Talk:Tori Amos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | And if you mean disable the analog input, well if a ripper takes it to his computer he can just turn on analog input. | | | As I menctioned a while ago the problem with this is the analog hole. | | | A ripper could easily make a high quality rip by hooking up the cd player to their computer, play the music through the computer and record it. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tori_Amos
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| | 1394 Trade Association: Press |
| | The analog connection between HD source components and displays is referred to as the "analog hole" by the content community, and they want to plug the hole. | | | IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire, and i.Link (Sony's name) was invented by the scientists at Apple Computer in the 1980s. | | | But unlike uncompressed video interfaces such as DVI and analog video, IEEE 1394 uses a different system for creating the on-screen displays and menus. |
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http://www.1394ta.org/Press/2002Press/august/8.b.htm
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| | The analog hole Tech & Stuff |
| | This is analogous to 1024k military encryption which can eventually be cracked when quantum computers become available. | | | The ears transfer function can always be simulated by an analog or digital filter (software) and provide a satisfying render of the acoustic content. | | | The only (limited, and in the end not affecting real "pirates") application I can foresee is to convince computer sound boards manufacturers to incorporate awareness to this technology in new sound cards analog inputs, in a Macrovision way. |
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http://jpinto.homeip.net/node/view/29
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| | Definition of Analog hole |
| | The "analog hole" refers to a fundamental vulnerability in copy prevention schemes for digital content which is intended to be played back using analog means. | | | When the information is converted to analog form, there are no restrictions on the resulting analog signal, and the content can be captured back into digital form with no restrictions. | | | Though this kind of reproduction is not a digital copy, and therefore may have flaws, depending on the quality of reproduction methods used. |
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http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Analog_hole
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| | Cruelty to Analog |
| | If you think analog is only good for supporting legacy devices, then your view of the "analog hole problem" is likely to be very different from someone who thinks of analog outputs as an innovation opportunity. | | | In their view, since all digital outputs will be hobbled by "content protection" technology, we must plug the "analog hole" to somehow make sure that the analog output stays at least as hobbled as the digital. | | | The work of the ARDG is to develop a fix for the "analog hole" -- the fact that anything that emerges from an analog output can easily be redigitized. |
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http://analog.blogs.eff.org/index.rdf
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| | Microsoft, Macrovision plug the analog hole. |
| | Analog Devices Inc., whose high-speed products research center is in Greensboro, released its new Blackfin electronic processor that apparently makes new digital cameras, car computer systems and even Microsoft software run faster. | | | Microsoft plugs an IE ActiveX hole that was used by attackers to infect web surfer's computers with a keystroke logging trojan. | | | Ironically enough, the digital revolution is driving strong demand for advances in analog electronics. |
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http://www.stargeek.com/item/289474.html
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| | EFF: EFFector Vol. 16, No. 34, December 4, 2003 |
| | In an effort to solve this "analog hole" or "analog reconversion" problem, the studios have convened a group called the Analog Reconversion Discussion Group (ARDG), which recently solicited proposals from a number of companies for a solution. | | | In the name of "parity" or "equality" between analog and digital video signals, they have proposed to eliminate, by law, much of the flexibility that the public currently enjoys in its use of analog video. | | | For many purposes, analog video is preferable to digital because it avoids technological restrictions on use and copying. |
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http://www.eff.com/effector/16/34.php
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| | American Antitrust Institute - Activities |
| | A solution for the analog hole remedy is absolutely necessary for the Flag scheme to achieve its purported goals. | | | To the extent that it doesn’t address the analog hole--where pirates will easily be able to use analog outputs to bypass the Broadcast Flag’s protection scheme--we know it won’t have any tangible benefit. | | | The attempt to try and fast-track this through an agency process, while it hasn’t wholly silenced consumers, has diminished their voices in a manner that’s ultimately going to affect the way that they enjoy TV and their consumer electronics devices, and even the ways they use their computers," Godwin said. |
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http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/recent2/278.cfm
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| | Cruelty to Analog: Analog Reconversion Discussion Group draft charter |
| | The group would also consider the potential application of such tools in the conversion of native analog material to digital format. | | | Charter by CPTWG: Examine technologies and systems with a view to identifying technological tools that may be relevant to addressing security issues arising from the conversion of protected, commercial audiovisual content from digital to analog format and reconversion to digital format. | | | Subject: Copyright owner concerns over the present and future security of commercial audiovisual content that has been converted from digital to analog format and reconverted to digital format. |
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http://analog.blogs.eff.org/archives/000239.html
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| | Macrovision Complete DVD Protection |
| | The analog hole is the result of consumers making high-quality copies of original DVD content from the analog outputs of their DVD player, DVD recorder, or PC. | | | These revenues flow through two different piracy holes, one analog and one digital. | | | The digital hole is the result of PC-based DeCSS ripper software, which allows millions of average consumers to make unauthorized perfect digital copies of copyrighted DVDs in mere minutes. |
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http://www.macrovision.com/products/complete_dvd_protection.shtml
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| | Digital Television: An Overview |
| | Accepted copyright protection technologies to "plug" the "analog hole" have not yet been developed, and will likely require further technology development and negotiation involving the content providers and consumer electronics manufacturers. | | | Stations are also prohibited from operating an analog signal on its designated digital channel. | | | Many consumers are asking whether their current analog TV sets will become obsolete with the advent of DTV. |
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/crs/more-reports/RL31260.htm
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| | The analog hole has been defined by Richard Parsons, CEO of AOL Time Warner at the Senate Judiciary Hearing of March 14th, 2002 as: “Video content, even when delivered digitally in a protected manner, must be converted to an unprotected analog format to be viewed on the millions of analog television sets in consumer homes. | | | Technology to address the “analog hole” exists and can be applied to provide the protection necessary to prevent unauthorized redistribution of broadcast content and help ensure consumers can benefit from new content, distributed in new ways, using the new technologies that are becoming increasingly widespread. | | | Technologies have been identified to help secure the analog hole and the digital domain, as noted in the following recent quotes from leaders in the technology, motion picture, and government sectors: “Watermarks may provide a means to ensure that protection rules survive as content transitions analog outputs.” Dr. |
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http://www.cptwg.org/Assets/TEXT%20FILES/BPDG/Tab%20O.doc
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| | EETimes.com - Plugging the analog hole |
| | Studios remain at odds with the PC and consumer electronics industries on the next steps, including the emerging problem of how to plug the hole created when unprotected analog trans-missions are intercepted and digitized. | | | Rather than simply plugging the analog hole, both sides acknowledged the need to consider a comprehensive solution to copy protection. | | | Plugging the so-called "analog hole" has emerged as the latest Achilles' heel in this long-running debate. |
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http://www.eetimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18307546&sub_taxonomyID=6256
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| | THE BASICS OF DIGITAL TELEVISION |
| | Hollywood is even asking the FCC to eliminate the “analog hole” – the ability for someone to take an HDTV signal from a set-top receiver’s analog component outputs and digitize it for copying and distribution over the Internet. | | | You'll still be able to use it, if it has AV inputs. | | | DTV signals also hold up better at much lower levels than analog. |
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http://www.avsforum.com/hdtvfaq/HDTV-FAQ.htm?HDPictures.com
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| | Copyfutures: Plugging the Analog Hole |
| | Other attempts to plug the analog hole have been proposed but have not materialized on a practical, consumer-oriented level. | | | Although the article focuses mostly on the practical use aspects of the technology, it is interesting to ponder whether the analog hole is truly "unpluggable". | | | New technologies being refined today are on the brink of truly bypassing at least one of the analog holes - the human ear. |
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http://lsolum.typepad.com/copyfutures/2004/09/plugging_the_an.html
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| | z2003-05-25- Analog Hole (WebSeitz/wikilog) |
| | The [MPAA] is aiming toward regulation of the manufacture of all [ADC]-s (analog to digital converters) to "plug the [Analog Hole]" by which people might still manage to make copies of their precious "Intellectual Property". | | | I'm at the point where I don't mind them screwing up their content marketplace, because I'd rather just see HackEr-s and other creators just Route Around the whole lottery system. |
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http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2003-05-25-AnalogHole
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| | A Deal to Plug Analog Gap in Digital Media |
| | Amid an estimated 10 million digital video recorders expected to ship in 2005, the companies are positioning for a surge in demand for PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 and broad consumer adoption and use of digital media technologies. | | | Macrovision's system already addresses analog protections, but the agreement is expected to bolster existing protections. | | | In that scenario, the content could be free of digital copyright-protection schemes that prevent it from being copied numerous times and pirated. |
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| | Computing Research Policy Blog: Hollywood May Seek Legislation to Plug "Analog Hole" |
| | The mandate would apply to "devices that digitize analog inputs of all kinds" and require them to apply digital copyright restrictions "on all analog-to-digital conversion," Wheeler said. | | | Wheeler said he believes a proposal will be put forward later this year to require computer companies to use technologies that detect invisible watermarks on analog content and stop the copying or redistribution of that content. | | | He said the technology would help close the analog hole and fight movie piracy from Movielink, from digital video recorders or from DVDs. |
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| | SPACE.com -- Desktop Black Hole Possibly on the Horizon |
| | Visser cautioned that remaining technological hurdles are "highly nontrivial." And if a simple analog black hole is developed, it could take a few more years to develop a sophisticated version that would answer a broader range of questions. | | | But Fleischhauer was not sure that the present technique can be used to create an optical black hole. | | | "The aim of these experiments would be to study the quantum properties of light or sound in these artificial black holes," said Ulf Leonhardt of the University of St. Andrews. |
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| | Copyfutures: HBO plugging the analog hole |
| | Analog programs can be converted to digital files. | | | Even if you convert from analog to digital, the copy will still retain the same copyright instructions as if it came from an original digital copy. | | | HBO permits its subscribers to make one copy - analog or digital -- of regularly scheduled HBO and Cinemax programs for time-shifting convenience, but not for sharing copies with others. |
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http://lsolum.typepad.com/copyfutures/2004/10/hbo_plugging_th.html
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| | Analog To Digital Music |
| | often use this analog to digital, digital back to analog conversion scheme... | | | We strive to maintain analog warmth in the digital domain. | | | Informative links to Analog To Digital Music related web sites on the Internet. |
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http://www.tunes2download.com/download-music-1/analog-to-digital-music.html
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| | Slashdot Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV? |
| | The only way to truely close the analog hole is to not have any analog information. | | | Re: To close the analog hole by zenyu (Score:2) Monday December 16, @08:55PM | | | Re:To close the analog hole by crgrace (Score:2) Monday December 16, @08:34PM |
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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/12/16/1846202.shtml?tid=129
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| | Slashdot File Swapping and the Analog Hole |
| | I refer to this argument as the "analog fallacy." The fallacy is that analog piracy is not nearly as threatening as digital piracy because analog copies degrade with every generation while digital copies remain pristine no matter how many copies are made. | | | The fallacy is that analog piracy is not nearly as threatening as digital piracy because analog copies degrade with every generation while digital copies remain pristine no matter how many copies are made. | | | Yeah, but if you have an analog copy, you make it into a digital copy, and the game's over. |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/19/2216211.shtml?tid=99
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| | Now the industry can concentrate on fighting today's piracy problem: digital duplication of low-resolution analog programming. | | | Abstract: After years of debate, the TV industry has a deal that will help fight a piracy problem that could plague producers in the future: illegal digital-to-digital copying and distribution of high-resolution, high-definition content. |
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA289828?display=Washington
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| | HBO seeks to close analog hole |
| | HBO began using technology this summer that seeks to close the analog hole that enables viewers to bypass digital copyright protection. | | | The networks also noted that many HDTV STBs are currently unable to pass through CGMS-A data on the analog component output. | | | The CGMS-A copyright protection instructions for protecting HBO and Cinemax content via analog outputs are the same as those that apply to digital outputs: |
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http://broadcastengineering.com/newsletters/scm/20040914/hbo-analog-protection-20040917
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| | Gnutella News - Hollywood Wants to Plug the "Analog Hole" |
| | The second section, "Plugging the Analog Hole," reveals Hollywood's plan to turn a generic technology component, the humble analog-to-digital convertor, into a device that is subject to the kind of regulation heretofore reserved for Schedule A narcotics. | | | They should know "plugging the analog hole" would cause a number of clueful consumers to forgo new technology in favor of uncrippled, older devices. | | | NO...because analog cannot be governed as digital recordings can, that's why. |
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| | The INDUCE Act (IICA) and the Analog Hole. The Importance of...: |
| | This is why it is important to recall that the MPAA has long had its eye on controlling not only digital technologies but analog as well. | | | Wouldn't devices that permit the analog hole to continue be "inducing infringement"? | | | All digital protection designs can only work in a digital environment, which is the environment of the Internet. |
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http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2004/08/31/the_induce_act_iica_and_the_analog_hole.php
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| | Techdirt:SunnComm Trying To Plug The Analog Hole |
| | The latest is that SunnComm has bought a company named Darknoise Technologies that claims to have a technology that will fix the "analog hole" of music copying. | | | Already, if you're making an analog copy, the sound quality is noticeably degraded, which has always been one of the reasons why it's never really been a huge problem. | | | This site was built on the slashdot code. |
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040204/185244.shtml
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| | Digimarc Digital Watermarking Solutions |
| | The following documents provide an overview of the issues surrounding protecting video in the digital age and digital watermarking solutions that plug the "analog hole." | | | Digital Watermarking and the "Analog Hole" (1.4 MB PDF) | | | Digimarc Comments on FCC Notice (1.2 MB VWM Companies' Watermarking Technology Presentation to the Analog Reconversion Discussion Group |
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| | MPAA now prefers the term "analog reconversion problem" to "analog hole" -- too bad for them they did such a good job promoting their original term. | | | there is no current broadcast flag proposal for analog TV. | | | The "analog hole" refers to a different MPAA legislative push, which does relate to regulating analog-to-digital converters because they can digitize video signals (and the result will be free of use restrictions). |
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| | How Will Veil's Technology Plug The Analog Hole? |
| | According to Scott Miller, executive vice president of business development at Veil, the company first proposed the technology in 2003, as part of an analog reconversion discussion group, the technical name for the "analog hole" the legislation would attempt to close. | | | At that time, Hollywood was looking for something like a "watermark," an indistinguishable identifying piece of information that could identify digital content. | | | How Will Veil's Technology Plug The Analog Hole? |
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| | The Analog Hole in your Datacenter :: AO |
| | Legislation would mandate such a technology be included in all "computers and computing devices" with analog inputs or outputs (try to think of a device that escapes). | | | The Analog Hole in your Datacenter :: AO Username | | | From his vantage point, this would ensure he and his peers in the industry would be fairly compensated for their content, and pirates could be kept at bay. |
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| | Stereophile: The RIAA's Digital Radio Copy Protection Proposal; Plugging the "Analog Hole." |
| | They're attempting to plug "the analog hole" with a piece of legislation called the "Analog Content Security Preservation Act of 2005." | | | Under the proposed legislation, any device that receives digital video input would have to respect DRM technologies, including one called Content Generation Management System—Analog (CGMS-A). | | | The "analog hole" is the current standard, which allows analog video material to be recorded. |
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http://www.stereophile.com/news/110705Riaa
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| | Hollywood wants to plug the "Analog Hole" (Cory Doctorow's Consensus at Lawyerpoint): markpasc.org |
| | Hollywood wants to plug the "Analog Hole" (Cory Doctorow's Consensus at Lawyerpoint) | | | Hollywood wants to plug the "Analog Hole" (Cory Doctorow's Consensus at Lawyerpoint): markpasc.org | | | Brian Carnell writes about Cory Doctorow's coverage of the MPAA's sudden honesty about their plan: |
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http://markpasc.org/weblog/2002/05/23_hollywood_wants_to_plug_the_analog_hole_cory_doctorows_consensus_at_lawyerpoint
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| | Slashdot Philips & Sony To Purchase Intertrust DRM Tech |
| | i dont see the problem with playing the cd, capturing the analog out (if need be) and running that into your run of the mill line-in filter of your computer or simular capture device. | | | DRM is coming, and it might have the effect of setting us back into some analogous form of tape copying in the 80s. | | | So Intertrust spends is energy instead trying to make sure that encrypted content stays encrypted all the time, up to the point where it goes analog and hits your screen or your speakers or your whatever. |
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http://www.slashdot.org/articles/02/11/14/061241.shtml?tid=98
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| | Blogcritics.org: Help With Your "Analog Hole" |
| | I don't see how this analog approach could run afoul of the DMCA, whose purpose is to deal with digital copying. | | | A German computer magazine and software company have created a new program to help consumers take advantage of the "analog hole" to make copies of "copy-protected" CDs, according to New Scientist: | | | I thought this was going to be a kinky story, with the "analog hole" in the title and all. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/09/092329.php
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| | dmusic.com - HBO freezes fair use; plugs analog hole |
| | Both technologies are also used to protect the analog output of DVD players. | | | The technology (CGMS-A -- Content Generation Management System for Analog) enables compliant digital recording devices to abide by federal digital encoding rules. | | | Commencing in June, HBO will include a technology in its program services that provides copyright protection information to consumer electronic equipment connected to analog outputs of cable and satellite set-top boxes. |
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| | CoCo: Into the Analog Hole |
| | A German company, Software Animation Design (S.A.D.), has brought a DVD copy program on the market under the name VideoJack. | | | While digital copying may be prohibited, both legally and by code, with a computer, tuner card and the VideoJack software the digital signals can be converted to analogue signals and burned on a CD or DVD. | | | The subsequent distribution of converted analogue digital television signals would still be possible. |
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http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/02/into-analog-hole.html
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| | Zeno's Paradox: Exploiting the Analog Hole |
| | November 07, 2003 - Exploiting the Analog Hole | | | This technique could work for any analog source - including game consoles and DVD players. | | | This technique could work for any analog source -- including game consoles and DVD players. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cjkarr/aetherial.nu/blog/archives/000899.html
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| | CNET Glossary: analog hole - ZDNet: Reviews |
| | Currently HDTV and other high-bandwidth content can be converted from analog to digital format and distributed widely. | | | The MPAA wants to "plug" the analog hole by placing watermark detection capability in analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), which convert analog audio and video into digital form. | | | A perceived chink in the armor protecting copyrighted content from unauthorized distribution--for example, over the Internet. |
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| | Slim Devices : Product Info : Overview |
| | This includes computers, mindisc recorders, digital tape decks, and rulers. | | | Slim Devices "plugs the analog hole" (THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!) | | | The key to SlimDRM's design is it's exclusive AudioSink® architecture, which allows MP3 files to be streamed with perfect quality over the network, then routed to an advanced, proprietary ASIC which is capable of completely nullifying the incoming data stream before it can be converted into an analog signal. |
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| | Rage on omnipotent: Jon Udell: The analog hole. |
| | Rage on omnipotent: Jon Udell: The analog hole. | | | The recording industry complains about the analog hole. | | | Udell points out we will be able to port our brain to PC (or at least what we hear and see) around 2020. |
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| | DRM Watch: SunnComm Merges with Analog Hole Plugger DarkNoise |
| | DRM Watch : DRM Technologies: SunnComm Merges with Analog Hole Plugger DarkNoise | | | The data is inaudible as long as the file is played as is. But the nature of the inserted data is such that analog conversion or lossy compression treats it badly and produces very audible distortion in the resulting output. | | | The DarkNoise technology is meant to address what media industry people call the "analog hole," i.e., the idea that there is no way to prevent copying of content when it's in analog form, such as recording a CD onto an audio tape, scanning and OCR-ing a publication, or camcording a movie in a theater. |
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| | Public Knowledge - Analog Hole |
| | Current FCC regulations regarding the broadcast flag scheme and the plug-and-play regime do not regulate analog interfaces. | | | The Federal Communications Commission has expressly avoided imposing regulations on analog interfaces, not least because there is no industry consensus as to what such regulations might look like. | | | Originally, the big push to impose mandatory DRM in broadcasting and in cable and satellite television was based on the assumption that digital television, including HDTV, would be easier to "pirate" (to make infringing copies, that is) because it is a digital source. |
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| | jwz - Post a comment |
| | Update 2: A friend who works at Tivo says: "I have every l33t tool available, and I still use the analog hole. | | | Update: I wonder if I'd be better off just going through the "analog hole": pressing Play on Tivo and letting iMovie import the DV from that (I have a Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge which converts analog audio/video to Firewire DV). | | | The minor difference in video quality just isn't worth the huge amount of additional effort." So, yeah, that's what I'm going to do from now on. |
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