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Written by tinfoil
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:54
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There seems to be a persistent myth floating around the board rooms of
the movie companies and Congress that analog content is the boogie man
of music and video piracy. In fact they're so paranoid about it that
they're considering a mechanism called ICT (Image Constraint Token)
that punishes law-abiding customers for content that they legally purchased. It isn't even for something bad that they've done, but for something
they theoretically might do which is to copy an HDTV movie at maximum
1920 by 1080 resolution using an analog video connector that doesn't
have copy restrictions built in. But ironically, the real content
pirates who make millions of bootleg movies have no intention of ever
taking advantage of the so called "analog hole" because that is the
slowest and lowest quality method of stealing content. The victim is
the consumer who's only crime is that he couldn't afford the latest
HDTV set with an HDMI content-protected connector so he or she gets
punished with quarter-resolution 960 by 540 output while paying for
high definition 1920 by 1080 (1080p or 1080 progressive) content.
Read more here.
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