I'm sorry, but if someone is going to tell me that it's illegal for me to record cable (that I pay for) and record/fast forward/rewind any of the content that they've broadcast to me... that's just ridiculous. Laws like this make me extremely angry!! This is about congress pandering to those-who-donate-- and laws that are bought/sold are intrinsicly unjust!
Regardless, I think all this worrying may be pointless at this point. a) I would bet my bottom dollar that this will eventually fizzle and b) even if it doesn't, it'll just get hacked. Granted, it will be a pretty big bummer to have to be a felon in order to pause my TV while I go the bathroom, but such is the price of being on the bleeding edge.... :-D
- Mark
Jason Werpy wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:07:17 -0500, Mark L. Cukier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently I would NEVER consider getting a "black box"-- I'm not going to steal cable. But, once the "black boxes" output a signal with the flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll definitely have a black box!!!!!!!!!
:-D
This reminds me of an add they run on my cable where a guy is
interviewing for a job. Then the interviewer notes that he has a
criminal record. The inverviewee says "Oh that, I just had one of
those cable descramblers, its was no big deal". The interviewer looks
at him and says well this interview is over, or something like that. Then cue the ominous "Cable Theft, its a Crime," voice over. Every
time and I mean EVERY time I see this add I can just hear them
replacing the line about stealing cable with "I just recorded a show
to watch later with my PVR", and replacing the cable theft line with
"Recoding HD TV, its a Crime."
At that point I just shake my head, because I know thats exactly how
Big Media wants it to be. But I do still know one thing, I will do
everything in my power to never ever honor the copy bit, no matter
what.
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