[mythtv-users] More DRM for Frontier FIOS

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 13:28 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> It was just over a year ago that I had the displeasure of reporting
> that Verizon FIOS had enabled copy protection on the national FOX
> channels.  For those of us FIOS cablecard customers unfortunately
> sold
> to Frontier, the saga continues to worsen.  It has been reported that
> Frontier's policy is to copy protect everything, much like Time
> Warner
> Cable does.  That appears to be the case as all new channels rolled
> out in the last week or so have copy protection enabled.  It's
> probably only a matter of time now before they get around to enabling
> it on existing channels too.

The fix is in.  (has long been I am sure)

It's really just a matter of time before any and all content everywhere
will be completely uncopyable and inaccessible to any device except
that which you are provided by your provider at a hefty cost to keep
you in the silo that much longer.

This whole game is a racket.

Cheers,
b.
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