[mythtv-users] Please submit your objection

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Thu Sep 17 08:09:15 UTC 2009


Max Hodgson wrote:
> 2009/9/17 David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com>
>> 2009/9/17 Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net>:
>>> Richard Morton wrote:
>>>> This is essentially changing the law in the UK to permit the BBC to
>>>> use DRM on HD.
>>> I don't understand:
>>> "Under licensing rules, the BBC is not allowed to encrypt the actual video
>>> or audio
>>> streams. So instead it is requesting that it be allowed to encrypt the data
>>> associated
>>> with TV listings without which set-top boxes are not able to decode the TV
>>> content."
>>> How would that work?
>>
>> They mean they want to encrypt the EIT (and presumably xmltv) data
>> that provides the TV schedule, so it wouldn't be possible to
>> automatically schedule recordings on the HD channel.
> 
> 
> So anybody who really wanted to pirate stuff, would look in the radio
> times and set their device to record between the hours of x and y.
> Yeah that'll work...

Yes, that's what made me think I didn't understand: the change does
nothing to stop piracy.

P.



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