<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><a href="mailto:qeldroma@gmx.net" target="_blank">qeldroma@gmx.net</a> wrote:<br>
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Ok, so sorry for this!<br>
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Didn't knew that using one smartcard for multiple Receiver-cards is against drm.<br>
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The problem is that some of the developers, and the list servers, are in the US. In the US they have the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which gives a really steeply sloped playing field. Anyone who thinks their copyright is being breached can serve a takedown notice which usually means the ISP will just "pull the plug" and possibly ask questions later. What is supposed to happen is that they ask questions first, but penalties for not complying with a takedown notice are there, while complaints from customers can be ignored. Since there are effectively no penalties for making false takedown requests, it's a nice way for people to cripple sites they disapprove of.<br>
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Also, there is a clause that makes it a criminal offense to bypass any "technical protection mechanism", or to discuss how to bypass such a mechanism, or to provide tools to do so. That still applies even if the TPM is completely and utterly broken (like CSS on DVDs), or even never worked in the first place.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I understand the reasoning and won't argue against it. But, as you just mentioned, the same reasoning applies to DVDs (and Bluray) so why are those topics acceptable here?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>
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