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AOL T-W & Intel Issue 'Joint Statement of Principles'

Posted by timothy on from the grain-of-salt-and-magnifying-glass dept.

morgue-ann writes: "AOL Time-Warner and Intel have released their Joint Statement of Principles in response to recent hearings in the Sentate Judiciary and Commerce Committees (Leahy/Hatch & Hollings/Stevens). The cover three issues: the broadcast flag, the analog hole and p2p. The first two are nearly a given for the CE and content industries even though they threaten fair use rights of HDTV PVRs (when/if they're developed), but on the third, they agree that 'No single silver bullet solution - technical, legal, legislative, or business - exists to address this thorny form of piracy.' and call for 'Active co-operation and participation of all sectors--content, CE, IT, service providers, and government--will be necessary to develop a range of solutions to this complex problem.'"

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  1. The way I see it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is that the content providers lost thier chance with DVD.

    They essentially had everything they're crying about wanting now... an encrypted format that required special hardware and/or software to be accessed, and all in a highly successable and affordable package that people actually WANTED.

    Had they been fully compitent in implementing this technology, it could've been used for any sort of "secure" media distribution.

    If secure content distribution is important to you, do it your damn self. If you fuck it up or fail to make it sufficently resilliant to "hackers", it's your own fault.

    Don't force the rest of the world to do it for you.