On 2/20/07, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes it will probably become a court issue. It would only be a court issue for us if we could not obtain a license for our hardware because it was Open Hardware with full documentation.
There's no way they'll give OGP a license. The only way to make the system even somewhat hard to crack is to have closed source drivers for the hardware, so that nobody can make an alternative driver that outputs video in the clear. Even so, the whole scheme is basically a misfeature, and there's no reason any user would want to have and use it other than because they have to in order to decrypt their HD content. So, my opinion is that there's no point in investigating this, and the only proper course of action is to legally attack the display manufacturers, should they ever collude to shut out hardware that doesn't support HDCP. There's no other reason to require an HDCP input signal than anticompetitiveness. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
