<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:12 PM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</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">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:13:20PM -0700, Robert McNamara wrote:<br>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Robert Houghton <<a href="mailto:robbadler@gmail.com">robbadler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Thats too bad. If you can't register a customer-owned card, what is the<br>
> > point in buying one?<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. US Cable providers are<br>
<br>
</div> You are viewing this from the mistaken perspective that this technology<br>
is for the customer's benefit when it is really for the benefit for the<br>
cable companies.<br><br></blockquote><div>As much as I'd love to malign the cable companies, I'm sure they are under heavy pressure from the content providers they serve to keep things as locked down as possible.<br>
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