[mythtv-users] Please submit your objection

[David Watkins]

2009/9/17 Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net>:
> Richard Morton wrote:
>>
>> This is essentially changing the law in the UK to permit the BBC to
>> use DRM on HD.
>
> I don't understand:
> "Under licensing rules, the BBC is not allowed to encrypt the actual video
> or audio
> streams. So instead it is requesting that it be allowed to encrypt the data
> associated
> with TV listings without which set-top boxes are not able to decode the TV
> content."
> How would that work?


They mean they want to encrypt the EIT (and presumably xmltv) data
that provides the TV schedule, so it wouldn't be possible to
automatically schedule recordings on the HD channel.