[mythtv] TiVo versus MCE versus my cable company

[Brad Templeton]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:42:25PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:43 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:
> 
> >     a) They stop ordinary users from conveniently copying the data,
> >     and slow advanced users down.
> > 
> >     b) They allow creation of industry cartels for media related
> >     hardware and software, so that nobody can come in with competing
> >     tools without joining the cartel first.
> 
> I believe they advertise reason A out loud, while in fact it's B that
> interests them.

Actually, reason A is what the MPAA wants.   Reason B is what the
consumer electronics vendors want.

What I didn't say was reason C, what the consumer electronics vendors
SAY is why they are doing it.   Namely that the MPAA has threatened
that if there is no DRM on the boxes the CE vendors make, they will
not release their movies.

They have said this many times of course, and lied each time.  This time,
you guess for yourselves.