This is just taking the authentication module out of the digital box and standardizing it. This way, a costumer can purchase whatever set top box they want and use it with any cable company. Additionally, costumers will have the option to purchase televisions with digital tuners built in so they don't have to have an external box cluttering their entertainment center.
If you can create an opensource box that will communicate with the card as well as modulate and demodulate MPEG-II QAM and QPSK signals, go to it.
As for the copy protection issue: headends have planned for this for a long time. The option already exists in the headend's interface to copy protect a stream and has been there for years. I'd assume the reason they don't currently use it is due to the backlash they'd get from their customers.
I'd think this would fall under abandoned property. They didn't want it anymore and someone came and picked it up.
If they were really concerned with the privacy of their email, they should have sent nice forward notes to everyone they've ever spammed to let them know they moved.
I would be amused to see ATI try and sue over this considering that they also appeared to cheat the benchmark on game test 4. I wonder if this is because they weren't able to catch and manipulate any other tests.
New benchmark for driver writers: how effectively can the coder cheat the performance benchmarks?
but if I came across the last tree on an island which is quickly converting to cannabalism, my thought would be closer to "building a boat and getting my ass off this island is more important than preserving the environment."
"Or how about the fact that if your NT 4.0 servers are inside the corperate forewall LEAVE THEM RUNNING."
Sure, this might work if the company trusts all their employees and never pisses any of them off. Don't forget that a massive number of attacks are internal.
The trick would not be to make the cable company think that it had successfully polled the box, but to make the box think it had been successfully polled. Once the box is polled, it will clear it's event memory, but if it never sees that poll it will retain the events which will eventually be recorded by the cable company.
As far as local viewing records, the boxes don't retain this information. The most the cable company can do is query the box to see which channel you are currently tuned into. This brings up legal issues, though.
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This is just taking the authentication module out of the digital box and standardizing it. This way, a costumer can purchase whatever set top box they want and use it with any cable company. Additionally, costumers will have the option to purchase televisions with digital tuners built in so they don't have to have an external box cluttering their entertainment center.
If you can create an opensource box that will communicate with the card as well as modulate and demodulate MPEG-II QAM and QPSK signals, go to it.
As for the copy protection issue: headends have planned for this for a long time. The option already exists in the headend's interface to copy protect a stream and has been there for years. I'd assume the reason they don't currently use it is due to the backlash they'd get from their customers.
I'd think this would fall under abandoned property. They didn't want it anymore and someone came and picked it up.
If they were really concerned with the privacy of their email, they should have sent nice forward notes to everyone they've ever spammed to let them know they moved.
I would be amused to see ATI try and sue over this considering that they also appeared to cheat the benchmark on game test 4. I wonder if this is because they weren't able to catch and manipulate any other tests. New benchmark for driver writers: how effectively can the coder cheat the performance benchmarks?
but if I came across the last tree on an island which is quickly converting to cannabalism, my thought would be closer to "building a boat and getting my ass off this island is more important than preserving the environment."
"Or how about the fact that if your NT 4.0 servers are inside the corperate forewall LEAVE THEM RUNNING." Sure, this might work if the company trusts all their employees and never pisses any of them off. Don't forget that a massive number of attacks are internal.
The trick would not be to make the cable company think that it had successfully polled the box, but to make the box think it had been successfully polled. Once the box is polled, it will clear it's event memory, but if it never sees that poll it will retain the events which will eventually be recorded by the cable company. As far as local viewing records, the boxes don't retain this information. The most the cable company can do is query the box to see which channel you are currently tuned into. This brings up legal issues, though.