So how much do we reckon the politicians were paid off by the MPAA and friends for that one?
Don't you just love corrpt government?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:16 PM
>To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag lunacy
>
>At 09:21 PM 2/10/2005 -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.
>
>No, they closed that one in the "robustness" rules for covered devices.
>
>� 73.9007 Robustness Requirements for Covered Demodulator Products.
>The content protection requirements set forth in the Demodulator Compliance
>Requirements shall be implemented in a reasonable method so that they cannot be
>defeated or circumvented merely by an ordinary user using
>generally-available tools or
>equipment. The requirements of this section shall become applicable on July
>1, 2005.
>
>Note to �73.9007. Generally-available tools or equipment means tools or
>equipment that are widely available at a reasonable price, including but
>not limited to,
>screwdrivers, jumpers, clips and soldering irons. Generally-available tools
>or equipment
>also means specialized electronic tools or software tools that are widely
>available at a
>reasonable price, other than devices or technologies that are designed and
>made available
>for the specific purpose of bypassing or circumventing the protection
>technologies used
>to meet the requirements set forth in this subpart. Such specialized
>electronic tools or
>software tools includes, but is not limited to, EEPROM readers and writers,
>debuggers or
>decompilers.
>
>--Wendy
>
>
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>Electronic Frontier Foundation
>Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
>http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/
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