According to /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/changelog.Debian.gz, you
all can go blame Andy Whitcroft and Tim Gardner for what appears to be
an arbitrary decision: supposedly "backwards compatibility." Uh, nearly
all applications use libraw1394, and I build backwards compatibility
into that!

For more information, the changelog entry references bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/276463

But those comments are from 2008! Here is the current status:
http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/1316

So, basically, the multitude of camcorder owners are being sacrificed
for the handful of pro-audio firewire interface users. I do not have
anything against FFADO, and its maintainer is a great guy. And even
though I maintain libraw1394 (as little as possible admittedly), I do
not have an audio interface to work on this firsthand nor the motivation
to do so. At some point, we need to decide to move on and sacrifice the
few stragglers. FFADO users should have been the ones forced to change
their blacklist file.

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DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6290
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