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Anti-Copying TV Technology Creeps Forward
An anonymous reader writes: " After CDs, then comes TV? Although the technologies
being spoken about are supposedly to prevent online sharing of television
content as digital network television is born, the extents of the
control being spoken of is alarming. When I purchase my next television recording device, will I be able to chose to record my
favorite show while I am away from home? Will I be able to record one show while watching another? Or will I be at the mercy
of the network ... only allowed to record should they *want* me to record. It could be possible to prevent the recording of first-run
shows, forcing either-or choices (and affecting ratings and advertising rates,) rather than allowing us to watch one, record another."
If I can't tape TV shows, I'll set up a video camera on a tripod, get a tightly cropped picture and use a timing device to record my damn shows. Or maybe I'll finally get so pissed off I withdraw from all corporate entertainment consumption.
Dammit, could the entertainment industry be bigger assholes?
The Technology Working Group has a better record of achievement, however. Formed in 1996 to come up with standards for protecting DVDs from piracy, the group has consistently agreed on standards such as the Content Scrambling System, which is built into DVDs and DVD players.
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I suppose they just succeded in making me buy a new monitor (...must...learn...not...to...read...online...sto
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
To get guns off the streets, some police departments hold an annual(?) amnesty day on which you can bring your gun (or "someone else's") to a designated place and they will buy it from you.
I'd like to see ABC, CBS and NBC bidding for my VCR. They probably wouldn't offer cash for the VCRs, though. They would each have their own version of TiVo that tracks your viewing habits, and they would invite you to trade in your clunky old box for a shiny new Big Brothe-- I mean, Personal Video Recorder. NBC would of course offer a discount on the MS HomeStation (since NBC and MS are so close) and a free Passport account.
Of course, I'll always have my computer's video card hooked up to the cable box...
finally contacts us by sending one of our own signals back to us leave it to some asshole to find a way to sue them.
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If I can see it, I can record it.
If I can hear it, I can record it.
Copy protection dosen't work.
Watching a show where the sound keeps cutting out every few seconds sucks no matter what, and that's what you're left with if you do what you suggest.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
You only *watch*, in the first place, the programs they *want* you to watch. (insert Twilight Zone theme here).
They can want you to watch, but you won't watch unless you want to watch. But if what you want to watch isn't what they want you to watch, then you can't watch. So maybe you give up wanting to watch what you want, and decide to want what they want, so that they get what they want.
But why do you want what you want? Is what you want what they want you to want? Or does it go the other way, where you don't want what they want and so they stop wanting what they want and instead want what you want so that what you want is what they give?
Who wants? And who's is the first want? One want to rule them all? Did any of you really want that film? Or is it all because the author wanted what you didn't know you wanted and when he gave it you all said, "this I want!!"
The power is shared. The wants are co-created between all the parties involved. Give me just enough of what I want and I'll be satisfied.