…You have the right to whatever rights the MPAA grants you. And you’ll be damn happy to have them! That essentially sums up the MPAA’s attitude toward “consumer” rights to listen/watch/copy/balance on their heads the media they purchase, er, license.

dixit Algorythm about a post on Cruelty to analog by Cory about a meeting of the Analog Reconversion Discussion Group .

According to his post, it seems the Analog Rights Management could be fairly blunt:

In an effort to address this inevitable « equivalence gap, » Hunt’s presentation set out the minimum set of « states » that the MPAA demands in any analog signaling (read: watermarking) system. They are:

1. Copy Never [and no redistribution]

2. Copy once (similar to the SCMS system used in DAT) [and no redistribution]

3. Copy no more (the condition of a second-generation « Copy once » copy) [and no redistribution]

4. Copy freely, but no redistribution [redistribution controlled by encryption]

5. Copy and redistribute freely (could be implemented either by absence of a signal, or by specific « copy freely » signal)