These guys don't know a damn thing of what they are dealing with, nor tdo they realize any such rule just deprives the massese of consumers and strengthen the minority. Botton line: ALL OUTPUT CAN BE STORED. there is no getting around it. If something involves displaying a movie or picutre or making an audible sound, you bet your ass I can store it, and I can store it no matter what type of hardware they devise. With every sinister means they cook up, theres going to be a stream of electrons that are either going to display a picture or make a noise, or perform an action, and if nothign else, all you have to do is intercept these electrion and channel to them to a recording media, I do it all the time when I play an MP3 and run a line to my stereo set to record on casset (or CD, it you have a recordable cd player) that would otherwise be going to speakers. Done. Fine`. Voila! Any questions?

and guess wha? you can get monitor feeds to switch to TV feeds, and when DVDs get more popular and when people don't own video cassets anymore, there going to be a home video demand for writable DVDs. . . 'nuff said.

-Justin Kelly