The analog hole (also known as the analog loophole or analog gap) is a perceived fundamental and inevitable vulnerability in copy protection schemes for noninteractive works in digital formats which can be exploited to duplicate copy-protected works using analog means. Once digital information is converted to a human-perceptible (analog) form, it is a relatively simple matter to digitally recapture that analog reproduction in an unrestricted form, thereby fundamentally circumventing any and all restrictions placed on copyrighted digitally distributed work. Media publishers who use digital rights management (DRM), to restrict how a work can be used, perceive the necessity to make it visible or audible as a “hole” in the control that DRM otherwise affords them.[1]
EDIT: I don’t know if I’d say that it’s fundamental, as Wikipedia did — I can think of a couple of approaches to try and address it — but it is quite substantial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
EDIT: I don’t know if I’d say that it’s fundamental, as Wikipedia did — I can think of a couple of approaches to try and address it — but it is quite substantial.
it is fundamental because you can capture it at the viewing end every time, until we get cyborg eyes anyway
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