On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:21:15PM -0500, Joshua M. Thompson wrote: > >The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to the sale or > >resale of a product that was manufactured prior to the effective date > >of this subpart OR THAT INITIALLY WAS SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED IN COMPLIANCE > >WITH THIS SUBPART. > > Am I missing something or does that last part seem to imply that cards > can be compliant even if they are trivially modifiable (say via firmware > upgrade) to make them non-compliant? I can't imagine them leaving such a > big hole in the regulations.
I don't know how wide that hole is but they sometimes leave holes. The problem is that the regs stop people from doing things officially. For example, if a nameless PVR package were to go in and hack the firmware on a card to disable the broadcast flag logic, it would mean that people in the USA would be unlikely to include it in their distros, and nobody would bundle the software on a PVR they sold. As a result, the tools become marginalized only to those who will make special efforts to get the forbidden stuff, and remain a tiny part of the market. I mean pot's much more illegal than tuner cards will be, but there's still plenty of it around, but it's pushed to the fringes of society. Which is silly for something that's just a card that demodulates an RF signal and writes out the bits essentially unmodified to disk.
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