On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:30:19PM +0000, Frank smith wrote: > About 2 hours I reckon!!!! > Taking your time of course! > :-) > bob > > > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:05 -0800, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: > > > hehe... > > > > Are you also making the assumption that AFTER June... no hacker in > > the world will create something to defeat the broadcast flag?
Quite possibly, but the law will still interfere just as much. Nobody would be able to include the hack in their distro or official software package (probably -- this is untested). So people would need to "hand-assemble", downloading hacks from elsewhere, installing them. Doesn't stop the determined linux jockey, stops ordinary folks though. And stops anybody from selling bundled hardware and software based on an open source PVR, if it leaves the High-def video files just sitting on the disk, in the clear. So it's not so amusing. They are quite happy to relegate open PVRs to the open source hacking crowd, it seems, but it puts a ceiling on where they can go. It worked on deCSS, though we spent a million dollars trying to stop it. MythTV is used mainly for SDTV today, but how many years before SDTV is as passe as VHS tape? Not long, and few will be interested in a PVR system that only does SDTV then. If mythtv and freevo and all the other open source pvrs are to be broader projects that get used outside of the hacking community, these regulations must be stopped.
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