[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> The "copy never" seems to fly in the well defined Fair Use that says a
> viewer is legally allowed to record a baseball game
> strictly for viewing in his home for non-commercial purposes. Am I not
> remembering this right or have the laws been
> change further against fair use?

DRM has never been about preventing illegal activities.  It's about
preventing unwanted (by the copyright holder) activities.  It's
perfectly legal for a copyright holder to use DRM schemes to prevent
what would otherwise be a legal activity, and it's been this way for
some time.

Eric