[mythtv-users] CableCard???

[Fedor Pikus]

On 11/13/06, Viitasaari <public at viitasaari.ca> wrote:
> Hmmmm....so strange.
>
> One would think that $100/month would keep a service provider happy.

Not that provider. CableCo by  itself probably could not care less,
but the content providers seem to have everybody by the balls, and
they would not be happy if you paid them $100/month (and you don't,
CableCo pays them a share of it for programming but not all of it).
Now, you you paid them everything you have except $100/month, then may
be they would be happy. But probably not, that last $100 would keep
them awake at night until they figure out a way to get it.

>
> When this kind of greed pervades it's no wonder people get a little bent
> and try to start bringing down the system.  Who knows...maybe just being
> able to send this message may be a luxury one day.
>
> I guess all the big guys don't realize how much they really have to
> lose.  Or maybe it's simply one of the most common strategies used in
> many wars throughout the ages...if you can't control it then destroy it.
>
> Hedgehog
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 14:37 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> > On Nov 13, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Viitasaari wrote:
> >
> > > Lets say that the service providers succeed in providing an end-to-end
> > > encryption scheme and the hardware vendors succeed in providing
> > > hardware
> > > to everyone who uses the service providers schemes.
> > >
> > > Now the question remains that if I payed for all my services and
> > > purchased all the proper hardware would that not give me the right to
> > > decrypt my system?
> > >
> > > This raises the question of whether it is illegal to attempt to break
> > > encryption schemes when you are paying to have it delivered and you
> > > are
> > > paying for the hardware to display it.
> > >
> > > I think the only way this would stand up in court is if the service
> > > providers and the hardware vendors can prove that their content is
> > > private in nature.
> > >
> > > A/V streams from service providers is public in nature!
> > >
> >
> >
> > Sounds like you haven't read the DMCA. At least in the US the
> > situation is absolutely insane. It is technically illegal for me to
> > watch a DVD that I have paid for on a Linux system that I have paid
> > for. It is also illegal for me to make an archival copy of a DVD that
> > I have paid for to protect myself against my dog chewing up the
> > original disk.
> >
> > The content owners have simply bought off the legislators in order to
> > get laws passed that go way beyond common sense, and I see no chance
> > of this changing in the forseeable future.
> >
> > The situation is simply nuts, but the carriers are scared of being
> > sued by the content providers so they bend to their will. I'm sure
> > they will get some form of their "broadcast flag" sooner or later, so
> > buy what you can now :-)
> >
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