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."

Comments

It doesn't matter

[bigpat]

This is just a bunch of out of work techies scaring tv executives into spending money on their new "copy" protection schemes. If they listen to them, then they deserve what they get... reduced viewership.

Imagine sharing of tv shows.... how many people would actually edit out the commercials? Isn't that the frigging point of tv from the executives perspective? what does it matter when someone views your show as long as they do? Keep the scramblers only on pay cable...

Most of what the big networks put out...

[Robber Baron]

...is shit anyways! I just recently began again patronizing one of the first great bastions of freely shared "content"...my local library. Guess what? I'm liking it a whole lot more than killing braincells watching mindless shit like Friends or that stupid Pamela Anderson T&A show...I can't even remember what it's called(shows how culturally important THAT is, doesn't it?). I say we should all just tell the so-called "content producers" to fuck off and take their steaming shit they have the temerity to call "entertainment" with them...it isn't worth the price of blank media anyway...and devote our attention to real art and real literature. And let's get out and live our own lives, and not waste time watching somebody else living a stupid fake life on TV.