[mythtv] [PATCH] Enable recording of encrypted channels without decrypting them first.

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 15 July 2010 07:28, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Emmanuel <eallaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm would it be possible to have it unscrambled also via a job, like
>> transcoding is done? That might even avoid the need to hack mythfrontend.
>
> Such a user job would certainly not be likely to ever make it into MythTV's
> repository.  Decrypting in this way would almost certainly be a DMCA
> violation, and thus would not be welcome in the official code tree.  While
> you guys may not be in the USA, a large number of the developers (and users)
> are, and we are not likely to be seen publicly supporting something that is
> likely to be ruled a felony in the USA.  Like it or not, the DMCA is in
> effect here.
> Now, if you guys make your own script to do *whatever* that will run under
> Linux, there's no technical reason you wouldn't be able to use it as a user
> job from MythTV.  Just be aware that that script is completely your
> invention, and your responsibility.  The only support you will be afforded
> is to make sure that whatever has been configured actually gets launched
> from the user job queue.  Past that, it's completely hands-off.

I do not live in the USA so I might not understand your laws.
Currently, myth uses a CAM to decrypt the DVB stream and then records
it in its decrypted form.
How is storing it in its encrypted form and then decrypting it later
suddenly break some DMCA law?
If you could point me to the paragraph in the DMCA law that it breaks,
that would be of interest to me.

Kind Regards

James