Hi Martin, maybe my english is just too bad, but could it be possible that you didn't answer any of the questions Klaus asked ???
Your answer sounds to me like it is from a politican. Much written but not much told. Stefan .... I agree with you that it would be helpful for the LinuxTV project if all CAMs were supported by the driver. However, I am pretty sure that the lawyers of the content industry consider watching pay tv using vdr *illegal*, because vdr users theoretically could copy and redistribute their recorded movies. In the near future, commercial STBs, whether they use Linux or not, will not only have to support CAMs, but also the content protection schemes which are currently standardized by the DVB project. By definition of copyright law, a Linux box that ignores content protection will be a "circumvention device". It is a bit similar to DVD CSS: if you want to obtain the DVD logo for you player, you have to licence CSS (which is broken). Still I don't think that the LinuxTV project will be endangered if we don't support every CAM or content protection system. LinuxTV software is free software licensed under the GNU public license. As long as it is not illegal to write software for computers and distribute its source code under the GPL, we always can write the software we need in order to filter the signals out of the noise offered by most of the broadcasters. yours Martin -- Martin Springer GPG Key-ID 1024D/23058565 Rosenthaler Str. 9 ph/ +49 (0)30- 28 30 08 1 D-10119 Berlin +49 (0)172 - 30 36 70 2 -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
