The MPAA is also winning some big points in the popularity contest with their own proposed legislation labeled (quite cleverly I might say)the "Analog Content Security Preservation Act of 2005." On the outside based from the weird PR I've read about this, it comes across as a method to simply preserve DRM when transferring content from digital to analog to digital back again (thereby losing any DRM watermarking). But the ACSPA appears to be a bit more than that according to this article. Under the proposal, any content digital or not would have to respect DRM watermarking.

It also takes a hit at time-shifting (which could eventually affect Podcasting and Vodcasting). The retention period of a recorded content could not exceed 90 minutes from initial receipt the content. Meaning that as soon as you start playing the Vodcast, the file would start to delete itself with a 90-minute lag time.

Can you say RIDICULOUS?