At 12:22 PM -0400 7/5/00, David Honig wrote:
>At 01:28 AM 7/5/00 -0400, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>>That is, unless analog recording equipment is criminalized and
>>exterminated (illegal possession of a microphone - 5 years. Possession
>>of a microphone while committing a copyright crime - 10 years.)
>
>All future analog recording gear sold in U$ must have
>analog-copyright-watermark detection circuit.
>
>Part of the Feinstein/Biden Compiler Registration and Programmer Licensing
>amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Anonymity Prohibition Act...
>
Even more worrisome is the Feinstein-Hatch bill to make illegal the
discussion of recording methods.
Anyone know which recording devices will be grandfathered under the
Assault Recorders and Child Protection Act of 2000? I'm hearing on
rec.audio.recording, soon to be removed from U.S. sites, that certain
wire recorders may be allowed as "curious and relics," provided they
are made nonoperational.
--Tim May
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