Plugging the Analog Hole. The MPAA is making another subtle power grab, this time through analog-to-digital converters. If this sounds like a minor technical detail, that's just what the MPAA is counting on. ADC's are everywhere; this alarmist hypothetical isn't far off: "Your cellphone would refuse to transmit your voice if you wandered too close to the copyrighted music coming from your stereo."

Meanwhile, an AP story notes that you can break the new copy-protected music CDs by taking a felt-tip marker to the rim of the disc. This article notes that the AP story violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by describing how to circumvent copy protection, and the second article (and this weblog post, and hundreds of posts on other weblogs about this) violates the DMCA by linking to it. Will Reuters go to jail?