Apparently, professional pirates who create bootleg discs and push stuff up onto Torrent feeds aren't the problem. Nope, it's regular folks who might want to time shift when they watch a movie:

The fab guys at the Motion Picture Association of America are petitioning the FCC on behalf of some major movie studios to close the "analog hole" that may allow people to record movies broadcast on cable before they hit DVD. "The Petitioners' theatrical movies are too valuable in this early distribution window to risk their exposure to unauthorized copying" runs the argument, and is why the MPAA wants "selectable output control" (SOC) enabled on some cable box outputs.

This is like beating the kid you catch staring at a quarter, because you're angry at the gang who just stole from your warehouse. If the MPAA gets any stupider, they might need weights to keep their heads from floating off.

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