[mythtv-users] More DRM for Frontier FIOS

[Alex Tomlins]

On 04/08/2016 20:39, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 8/4/2016 11:35 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 13:28 -0500, David Engel wrote:
>>> It was just over a year ago that I had the displeasure of reporting
>>> that Verizon FIOS had enabled copy protection on the national FOX
>>> channels.  For those of us FIOS cablecard customers unfortunately
>>> sold
>>> to Frontier, the saga continues to worsen.  It has been reported that
>>> Frontier's policy is to copy protect everything, much like Time
>>> Warner
>>> Cable does.  That appears to be the case as all new channels rolled
>>> out in the last week or so have copy protection enabled.  It's
>>> probably only a matter of time now before they get around to enabling
>>> it on existing channels too.
>> The fix is in.  (has long been I am sure)
>>
>> It's really just a matter of time before any and all content everywhere
>> will be completely uncopyable and inaccessible to any device except
>> that which you are provided by your provider at a hefty cost to keep
>> you in the silo that much longer.
>>
>> This whole game is a racket.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> b.
>>
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> I had hopes for the FCC push for third party STBs. Hope is fading:
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> http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-copyright-office-criticizes-fccs-plan-on-set-top-boxes-1470260812 
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> Sorry if you can't read this. The WSJ puts most articles behind a 
> paywall.
>
To avoid the paywall, you can just google for the title (or in this case 
the last part of the URL - 
"u-s-copyright-office-criticizes-fccs-plan-on-set-top-boxes-1470260812"), 
and click through from Google. Sites have to allow Google in or they 
don't get indexed.

Alex

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