[mythtv-users] Time Warner encrypting everything. HDHR Prime with CableCard unable to record anything.

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 15 22:34:32 UTC 2015


I think using the phrase '...cable industry....' is a horrendous abuse
of the English language, now '....cable extortion racket....' I can
get behind no problem.

On 15 January 2015 at 21:24, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
>> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> You're also ignoring that a "protected path" is very much not what
>> >> many people who use MythTV are looking for
>> >
>> > Rock, met hard place.  CableCARD certification
>> > for copy-once/never content requires protected path.
>> >
>> > If MythTV users want to change the rules, they
>> > will need to step up and work at a different level
>> > (Congress for a change in copyright law that
>> > currently gives content owners rights in how one
>> > can access their works, or the content providers
>> > themselves to eliminate the DRM requirements
>> > on their content).
>>
>> I don't really expect either of those to happen any time in the near
>> future.  I expect it's more likely for broadcast (including cable)
>> distribution to fully collapse and the industry to move to on-demand
>> streaming only distribution before either of those two efforts could
>> succeed.
>
>    In the meantime, I am happy that I can help contribute to the
> collapse of the cable industry. <snip> <snip>
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