[mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:47 -0500, Maverick wrote:
> 
> Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being
> an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that
> section of code using "illegal" patches.

You are missing the point of the problem.  Software like Myth will not
even get access to the content to strip/remove/skip/ignore the flag.
The knowledge (i.e. programming specs) needed to get the information
from the HDTV capture card will not be available to a project like Myth
for those very reasons.

Sure, it could be reverse engineered for every device out there but
that's a long hard road.

b.

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