[mythtv-users] Hardware configuration and capabilities of MythTV

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/7/2011 16:52, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> Copy once content is not allowed to be duplicated, so in order to ensure
>> this, the tuner card will only pass the content onto a Cable Labs certified
>> device.  That means certified hardware, running a certified operating
>> system, and certified media center software, and certified video hardware.
>>   All together... that means Windows Media Center 7 and an HDMI/HDCP capable
>> video card.
> Definitely not MythTV or any other open source solution.

No DRM scheme can ever be supported by any open source solution.  There 
MUST be closed binaries or closed hardware in the loop somewhere to 
handle the unencrypted content.  Open source conditional access systems 
would work just fine, but DRM requires that you protect the content from 
the user.  That is something cannot be done when the user can simply 
recompile the code with a patch to store the content unencrypted.