As usual, the big companies are rattling their swords about fighting piracy and introducing countless stupid inconveniecies in the consumer devices that will only limit the honest buyer's (and spectator's) posibilities.
They say they want to stop piracy by limiting the freedom of customers and in some cases, even by denying the customer some of his own legal rights.
They think they can stop piracy by preventing someone to share a video material with a friend, while the real pirates, those that actually make the real money at the expense of the media companies, those pirates that already have the power to make copies on a production line, those pirates who SELL those copies, those pirates will never be stopped by this stupid regulations.
What they want is control and the ordinary people to be pawns at their mercy (remember OCP?).
When the DVD copy protection was broken and released on the internet and a huge scandal followed, the media giants turned their wrath on a scandinavian youngster who wrote the code and posted it at a time when real pirates were already manufacturing and selling DVDs on a large scale and did not use or need the decss program.
However, the DVD copy protection scheme prevents the ordinary citizen from making a backup copy of his purchased movie, not even on lower quality VHS. However, it is the citizen's right to do so if he/she wants.
At the time the media giants attacked Napster, it was the only company doing what it did. after Napster was closed, other similar services emerged like mushrooms in a forest after rainfall, many of which they have not control whatsoever.
Personally, I have a TV and 2 VCR's. I like to watch a movie and record 2 others on other stations, if they are interesting and view them later. I will see the commercials on all of them and theoretically, all those stations can consider themselves as receiveing audience rating from me for those movies they broadcast.
Or maybe I want to watch a sporting event that is broadcasted when I am away from home, ie at work!!!
I can't imagine how preventing me from recording that even to be watched later when I come home will ever help that TV station !!!
I don't see how wil this really affect pirates! Surely they already have the means of getting the footage they need and a copy protection scheme on broadcasted TV will be broken eventually by them, and then will become widely known.
Probably the fate of such copy protection schemes will be similar to those used by sat operators. And how in the world can they imagine that the average citizen can afford a personalized, professional, high-tech descrambler like Power-Vu is for sat broadcasts, since there it is used only for high-end customers, like cable operators that then charge you cable fee for giving you that channel...
In the end, this can only be seen as a measure to control the freedom of the citizen.
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As usual, the big companies are rattling their swords about fighting piracy and introducing countless stupid inconveniecies in the consumer devices that will only limit the honest buyer's (and spectator's) posibilities.
They say they want to stop piracy by limiting the freedom of customers and in some cases, even by denying the customer some of his own legal rights.
They think they can stop piracy by preventing someone to share a video material with a friend, while the real pirates, those that actually make the real money at the expense of the media companies, those pirates that already have the power to make copies on a production line, those pirates who SELL those copies, those pirates will never be stopped by this stupid regulations.
What they want is control and the ordinary people to be pawns at their mercy (remember OCP?).
When the DVD copy protection was broken and released on the internet and a huge scandal followed, the media giants turned their wrath on a scandinavian youngster who wrote the code and posted it at a time when real pirates were already manufacturing and selling DVDs on a large scale and did not use or need the decss program.
However, the DVD copy protection scheme prevents the ordinary citizen from making a backup copy of his purchased movie, not even on lower quality VHS. However, it is the citizen's right to do so if he/she wants.
At the time the media giants attacked Napster, it was the only company doing what it did. after Napster was closed, other similar services emerged like mushrooms in a forest after rainfall, many of which they have not control whatsoever.
Personally, I have a TV and 2 VCR's. I like to watch a movie and record 2 others on other stations, if they are interesting and view them later. I will see the commercials on all of them and theoretically, all those stations can consider themselves as receiveing audience rating from me for those movies they broadcast.
Or maybe I want to watch a sporting event that is broadcasted when I am away from home, ie at work!!!
I can't imagine how preventing me from recording that even to be watched later when I come home will ever help that TV station !!!
I don't see how wil this really affect pirates! Surely they already have the means of getting the footage they need and a copy protection scheme on broadcasted TV will be broken eventually by them, and then will become widely known.
Probably the fate of such copy protection schemes will be similar to those used by sat operators. And how in the world can they imagine that the average citizen can afford a personalized, professional, high-tech descrambler like Power-Vu is for sat broadcasts, since there it is used only for high-end customers, like cable operators that then charge you cable fee for giving you that channel...
In the end, this can only be seen as a measure to control the freedom of the citizen.