[mythtv-users] The Coax Straightjacket: Stopping Cable Copy-Protection Abuse

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/12/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> This link: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000310.html
>
> is an interesting article about cableco's changing the 'do not copy byte'.
>
> Does anyone know of any programs which would allow a user to find the
> CCI byte in a digital stream?
>
> I'm in Canada, and the use of a program to find, and even change the CCI
> byte in a digital file on my computer is not illegal. And although the
> MPAA and RIAA believe otherwise, I do not think that it breaches the US
> DMCA, although that is just my opinion, and relies in part upon my
> necessarily fuzzy understanding of the US Copyright Act fair use
> doctrine, as explained by SCOTUS in the Betamax decision.

Recent court decisions involving the DMCA have basically ignored and
made null the Betamax decision, so using that as a defense is risky at
best.

But your Canadian so it doesn't apply to you, for now...

good luck!

-- 
Steve
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