Seems some people are confused about Conversant's release.

I've posted a clarification. Hopefully it will help.

Wow, Brian Carnell really loves the bill that the Motion Picture Association of America is trying to get pushed through the U.S. Senate. You see, Brian's one of those big government buffs who think Uncle Sam should legislate everything from what you can do with the water on your land to who you can marry to who should get the job promotion at work.

This new bill wants to make it so that anything which converts an analog signal (just about anything you can record or capture like pictures and sound) to a digital signal (what your computers and DVD players use) will refuse to do so if a hidden "water mark" in the analog material indicates that it's copyrighted.

OK, I'm kidding. Brian's an anarchist, er, a strict independent, and he really hates this bill.