Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPAA at it again.

[Marcus Leech]

Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:

> Why Marcus?  I don't understand ...

Just in case that wasn't sarcasm.

On the "ashamed to be an engineer" aspect--look at the ARDG (Analog 
Reconversion Discussion Group) page at the
 http://www.ctpwg.org  website.  Given the large number of technology 
submissions to this group, there must
 be plenty of engineers who actually think this can be made to work, 
for suitable definitions of "work".

On the "USRP will be illegal" aspect.  With a 60Mhz high-dynamic-range 
A/D onboard, it clearly falls under
 the purview of what ARDG is targetting.  In fact, I actually thought 
last night of a way USRP could be
 used to create a technology-neutral watermark eliminator, as a 
pre-processor for an "ARDG encumbered"
 video digitization system.

This stuff is nonsense, in so many dimensions, I cannot believe that 
rational people can propose this
 sort of stuff.

I'm a Canadian, which means that I don't have any congresscritters to 
bother.

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