[mythtv-users] More DRM for Frontier FIOS

[Kirk Bocek]

On 8/4/2016 11:35 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 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.
>

I had hopes for the FCC push for third party STBs. Hope is fading:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-copyright-office-criticizes-fccs-plan-on-set-top-boxes-1470260812

Sorry if you can't read this. The WSJ puts most articles behind a paywall.