<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Steven Adeff wrote:<br>> On 10/12/07, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">
newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> This link: <a href="http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000310.html">http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000310.html</a><br>>><br>>> is an interesting article about cableco's changing the 'do not copy byte'.
<br>>><br>>> Does anyone know of any programs which would allow a user to find the<br>>> CCI byte in a digital stream?</blockquote><div><br><snipped for brevity> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well I have not seen any decisions which inpinge on the BetaMax fair<br>use doctrine. The DMCA and cases coming from it have focussed on the<br>'circumvention' aspects or on the 'making available' contravention..
<br><br>Geoff</blockquote><div><br>On an unexpectedly related note... Apparently, this is the cause of the problems many MythTV users have been having with tuning in channels on their set top boxes connected via firewire.
<br><br>As some of you might know. I am currently working with Insight Digital Cable in Northern Kentucky to resolve an issue where some of my HD channels that once worked will now not "tune in" via my firewire connection to my Motorola DCT 61xx box. I've been contacted by two other users in the area who have the exact same problem.
<br><br>Josh at insight has been extremely cooperative. If his attitude is reflective of the corporation as a whole, it indicates they lean towards consumer rights versus draconian DRM restrictions (which, if you understand the FCC regulations, are largely illegal).
<br><br>Root cause analysis has revealed the following about our situation:<br><br>1. We all lost the same channels at the same time. <br>2. Insight did a channel frequency listings change/update at that time. <br>3. HD/SD is not a factor.
<br>4. Whether the channel is a "premium" channel (TNTHD, ESPNHD etc) or a channel that is free OTA (ABC, NBC, CBS etc) is not a factor. I have examples of both being blocked.<br>5. The CCI bit on every channel that is blocked is set to 0x02, and on every channel that works it's set to 0x00.
<br><br>Josh has confirmed my findings on several pieces of equipment in their labs. he is going to request the fix this situation. He is in contact with a technician at the head office and has promised to get back to me in the next day or two with their response concerning this.
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