Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes

WestCoastSuccess writes with this excerpt: "A year and a half ago, Canada's Shaw Cable began encrypting channels with the '0x02' flag. This flag has the effect of making the IEEE1394 (Firewire) output useless to customers who use third-party PVRs (such as the excellent MythTV, for example). After complaints to the CRTC and Industry Canada about this practice, the encryption flag was dropped on most channels and the Firewire connection again functioned. Until last night, that is."

Comments

They own this signal. They can do what they want.

[olsmeister]

So shut the fuck up. Shaw is not obligated to you to provide a certain type of signal at a particular time. You will take it, or not.

how ironic!

[Anonymous Coward]

so the same fucks who think that music theft is a for of protest against the riaa are the same fucks bending over and taking it up the ass when it comes to the cable company.

i guess you bitches can't live without your spoon fed entertainment.

idealists my ass.

Re:It's like quitting smoking.

[BitZtream]

Its nice that you can lie to yourself and fall for it.

You missed them because they weren't worthless to you. Entertainment is far from worthless. Its very cool that you feel special because now you don't need to watch those shows, but in reality you're just in denial. You wouldn't even be posting if you truely didn't miss them anymore. They wouldn't even come to your mind, but the reality of it is, you still miss TV and you're just trying to convince yourself that you still don't need it and you can continue to resist it.

I typically find that people who are so impressed with themselves for not watching TV have replaced it with something equally 'worthless' such as playing WoW or reading random crap on the Internet and calling it 'educational' or some other BS about why its better.

Its fine that you don't watch TV, but give up with your bullshit excuses and stop trying to convince everyone else that your ability to no longer watch TV is impressive, we really don't give a fuck if you deny yourself something you like in order to prove some point to yourself that only exists in your head.