[mythtv-users] CableCARD spoofed by DIY community

[David Schlenk]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>> An acronym for you. DMCA.
>
> Actually, the DMCA allows reverse engineering for interoperability.
> And if cablecard works in the manner I understand, they won't have to
> break any encryption to get access to the content, because the
> cablecard will handle that for them. All they need is the driver to
> interface with the card. Then the card can do its thing and the driver
> can interact with the card to fetch the results.
>
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> Ron
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The problem is that the content you could potentially get from the
card is still encrypted and the DMCA specifically forbids you from
reverse engineering something by breaking encryption.

Still an interesting development, although my guess is by the time
someone comes up with a hacked cablecard solution for linux, cablecard
will be all but dead. Unfortunately.


David