MPAA wins. You will soon no longer be able to record TV.
 

The Broadcast Flag bill that was defeated in court is about to be slipped back in piggybacking on an appropriation bill & rammed through anyway.
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=247935
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/20..._your_sen.html
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_02.php
Check out eff.org's main page on the Broadcast Flag:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/

blame bush!

I will. He did appoint the leadership of the FCC. The FCC was the one pushing for this bill (as well as they are pushing to eliminate analog programming) and it was decided in court that they had no authority to dictate that all consumer video gear must contain DRM. So the MPAA lobbied to get it slipped in quietly into another bill.

Should we blame Clinton then ?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

only in america

thank god i allready own an ATI AIW card.

its getting so fucking crazy

You might want to pick up a spare one while you still can :2 cents:

You'll still be able to record TV. It just can't be output to any other device at more than 720x480.

That doesn't make it suck any less, however.

Actually if full Digital Rights Management is implemented the content producer will be able to set the terms. They could allow you to record, set it so you had to watch the program within a certain amount of time or block recording all together. If the producer of a show decided that instead of your timeshifting (and skipping the commercials) on a program that comes on while you are at work he'd rather you have to wait until the end of the year and buy the season discs all he'd have to do is set the DRM to block recording.

Of course there will be gadgets to get around this BS, even if it involves converting digital to analog (and that's another whole ballgame of sucks :upsidedow)

LOL

the leader of the FCC is Colin Powell's son.

:helpme

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Some 16 year old kid somewhere will figure out a mod, then it's back to square one.

Adam Smith would roll over in his grave. Capitalism thwarted by government trying to protect capitalists. LOL

Actually, you could get around it with existing equipment such as a cheap RF modulator. If you were saving to disc you would be going digital to analog and back to digital. Best case scenario would be VHS quality.

It could be a revenue stream for a network... sell consumers an monthly/quarterly/annual key to watch programs recorded from your network. :upsidedow

We're talking about the broadcast flag, not full DRM, right?


The essence of the FCC's rule was in 47 CFR 73.9002(b) and the following sections:

"No party shall sell or distribute in interstate commerce a Covered Demodulator Product that does not comply with the Demodulator Compliance Requirements and Demodulator Robustness Requirements."

The Demodulator Compliance Requirements insisted that all HDTV demodulators must listen for the flag (or assume it to be present in all signals). Flagged content must be output only to "protected outputs" or in degraded form: through analog outputs or digital outputs with visual resolution of 720x480 pixels or less--less than 1/4 of HDTV's capability. Flagged content may be recorded only by "Authorized" methods, which may include tethering of recordings to a single device.

3 more years. How far down a balck hole can this administration push us?

Thank god I don't live in America.
I think this is going to become a very common phrase...

Sigh... more restrictions. Land of the free?

I give up. I've decided to become a politician instead.

wtf? assholes!

it will be challeneged. They already lost once. NOthing's to say they won't lose again

:1orglaugh

Bah, someone will make something to beat it..