More Insane DRM Nonsense

Hot on the heels of the Sony CD DRM rootkit fiasco, and the subsequent knee-jerk reaction (pay no heed to the uninformed title of the article), comes the entertainment industry's latest salvo. This is a bill that aims to (cough) encourage the adoption of digital content (cough), assuming that said content is sufficiently restricted. How does it do this? It's deceptively simple, just make analog recording disappear, and you'll have to buy encumbered digital content instead. Don't throw away your current recorders -- they may be worth more than you could possibly imagine in a few years...