The Content Protection Status Report is the title of a series of three documents submitted to the United States SenateCommittee on the Judiciary during 2002 by the Motion Picture Association of America. (The Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over, and regularly holds hearings related to, U.S. copyright law.) In these documents, MPAA discusses its progress in devising, and getting technology firms to adopt, digital rights management and recording controls for consumer technology products. Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally called the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association, is a non-profit trade association based in the United States which was formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ... Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ... Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. ...
The Status Report also proposes, in general terms, legislation related to three areas of concern to MPAA in 2002:
The original documents remain available from the Senate Judiciary Committee's web site: The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is the group that helped to develop the new digital television standard for the United States, also adopted by Canada, Mexico, and South Korea and being considered by other countries. ... A broadcast flag is a set of status bits (or flags) sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. ... The analog hole is a fundamental, and inevitable vulnerability in copy prevention schemes for noninteractive digital content which is intended to be played back using analog means. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf Content Protection Status Report
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/mpaa_june.pdf Content Protection Status Report II
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/mpaa110702.pdf Content Protection Status Report III
The analog hole (sometimes analog reconversion problem or analog reconversion issue) is a fundamental, and inevitable vulnerability in copy prevention schemes for noninteractive digital content which is intended to be played back using analog means.
Inventors of digital watermark technologies were particularly interested in this possibility because of the prospect that recording devices could be required to screen inputs for the presence of a particular watermark (and hence, presumably, their manufacturers would need to pay a patent royalty to the watermark's inventor).
In every copy protected medium, there are two grades of equipment, consumer, which may include copy protection, and professional, which by necessity, allows access in a way that is above copy protection.
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