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the Analogue hole Will never Die

• immibis 1y ago
  They tried to. They tried to make cameras illegal. Remember that?
  • orangecat 1y ago
    Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital.... Scarily it would be more technically feasible to implement this today than it was then.
• globular-toast 1y ago
  It's not technically currently dead, but running a film movie camera pointing at your laptop during a Teams call is a bit out of reach of most. Even movies costing millions of credits are not shot on analogue any more. Can you manufacture film yourself? Know anyone who does? It could start with quietly making the essential chemicals in film production and development "controlled". Then you might need a licence to do analogue photography. Eventually even the last few analogue photographers either die or switch to digital due to the increasing impracticality of analogue. Then the film companies stop making it, then you make it illegal for them to start making it again. You've now killed the analogue hole. Maybe you're hoping it would be futile like the war on drugs, except there's actually demand for drugs. I can't imagine dealers suddenly stocking up on illegal film for all the people wanting to capture stuff from their Teams calls.