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Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions
Riktov writes "The Japan Times reports that that viewers of digital broadcast TV, which started this past April, are complaining to national broadcaster NHK about restrictions on recording. Many of the complaints seem to arise from viewers who are confused as to why they can't copy rather than angry that they can't copy, but in the end all viewers are learning the hard way about content restrictions."
Suprnova.org changed their site to japanese on apr 1. Must be because they were expecting japanese visitors.
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
NHK is Disrespectful to recorders!
It's not long before some kid from Norway writes another version of DeCSS or DeDRM. All he has to do is move to Japan for a month or two...
:)
Anyone live in Japan and want to host him? Anyone know the guys email address?
The US implementation is going to do away with such a cumbersome step. It will simply require a blood sample to identify your DNA to confirm you are an authorized viewer. Of course, it will also have special retina burning devices to ensure that only the authorized individual can view the product. Visual piracy immediately punished. No appeals!
Flagness: You can now only watch! You cannot record! Ahahaha.
Jo: We'll see about that, Flagness. That's my recorder, you can't tell me what to do!
Flagness: I own the stream you fool!
Jo: I pay for the stream! Everybody pays for the stream! That stream is as good as ours!
Arfie: Arf!
Jo: You tell 'em, Arfie! We're not taking it anymore!
Flagness: I cannot be toooooooooooooooold!
Jo: Wanna beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet?!
*Shink*
Tune in next week to see who dies!
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
@ssh0le
How do you pronounce that? Atsshzerole?
"Where is the NHK TV camera? Hello, Tokyo!"
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
I should have watched the beginning of the episode. I would have recorded it, but ...
I think he's using a US customer with one of those weird regional accents. "Y'all knows who all I'm a talking at."
It might be crazy enough to work. Sign me up, I'm a purebred American asshole.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
too... many... letters and acronyms! (head explodes)
"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause of the leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."
However, I think you're turning Japanese, I think you're turning Japanese, I really think so.
Hey, think The Vapors will sue me for this?
--- Ban humanity.
bless you!
Liberty.
No, you see, replacing real words with numbers and other keyboards symbols is simply a text-based clue that you need to pronounce it while imitating the voice of a 13 year-old...
That's not the only way to abbreviate it either. Sometimes it's just shortened to "a/s/l", except the latter almost always refers to one's self.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Therefore, there's presently no legal way to watch any FNC-made show in Canada.
As a Canadian, let me say: Thank god for that.
(AD 2004)
Viewer: "Main screen turn on"
Screen: "All Your Bits Are Belong to Us!"
"You have no chance to record, make
your time!"
Viewer: "What you say?"
[Insert pithy quote here]
..accept DRM or do without TV.
Which I have already done. Who needs TV when you have slashdot?
>>Copyright is censorship.
Chocolate cake is rape.
Oh, wait...that doesn't make sense either.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".