The Content Protection Status Report is the title of a series of three documents submitted to the
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Committee on the Judiciary may mean:
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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, the MPAA discusses its progress in devising, and getting technology firms to adopt,
digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...
and recording controls for consumer technology products.
The Status Report also proposes, in general terms, legislation related to three areas of concern to the MPAA in 2002:
* The
ATSC
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an American set of standards for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. It is largely a replacement for the analog NTSC standard and, like that ...
broadcast flag
A broadcast flag is a bit field sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not the data stream can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. Possible restrictions include the inabili ...
* The
analog hole
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Peer-to-peer file sharing
The original documents remain available from the Senate Judiciary Committee's web site:
* http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf Content Protection Status Report
* https://web.archive.org/web/20050903004220/http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/mpaa_june.pdf Content Protection Status Report II
* https://web.archive.org/web/20050527202214/http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/mpaa110702.pdf Content Protection Status Report III
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United States copyright law