On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:56:29AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:47 -0500, Maverick wrote: > > Will MythTV obey the broadcast flag if it where to become law? Being > > an open source project, seems like everyone would just remove that > > section of code using "illegal" patches. > > You are missing the point of the problem. Software like Myth will not > even get access to the content to strip/remove/skip/ignore the flag. > The knowledge (i.e. programming specs) needed to get the information > from the HDTV capture card will not be available to a project like Myth > for those very reasons.
Alas, Brian, even *you* are missing the point. ;-) My understanding of the requirements of the broadcast flag are that hardware implementations like those on tuner cards, *would be required to do the filterinf (forcing down-convert) *inside the silicon of the card* -- there's some question as to whether even firmware is secure enough. It's akin to cellular scanners (which, incidentally, are *still* illegal, even though maybe as much as 0.5% of cell phone calls are at 800-Analog these days): you couldn't just put in a jumper that user's could clip: you had to program the blocks inside a chip. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me
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