A pretty dooms day article to me... seriously, is it not ok to have certain content that people are trying to make money locked down, while the rest of the Internet remain free, regardless of whether it's going to be in your living room or your PC or your phone? Can't we let market forces decide? -JJ-
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Soh Kam Yung Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:41 AM To: slugnet Subject: [Slugnet] [OT] The potential dangers of Digital TV Via slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/18/2240231&from=rss) at (http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/06/ahead_of_the_cu_7.html). With Singapore (and the region) moving to digital TV broadcast in 2015(?), this issue may affect how open-source devices can operate (MDA may not allow open-source players that don't obey the 'broadcast flag' or other recording restrictions, for example). Regarding HDMI interfacing problems: has anybody here seen that happen or is it 'urban legend'? ===== Digital TV Foreshadows Erosion of Net Rights Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 18, @09:58PM from the it-happened-so-slowly-I-barely-noticed dept. Television snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager offers insight on how digital TV is rapidly heading toward the kind of lockdown that entertainment and broadcast lobbies desire for the Internet. Standards such as HDMI and HDCP are acting in concert to strip your equipment of its functionality, displaying 'incompatibility' messages when plugged into older HDMI-enabled devices, shutting down analog outputs when active, and requiring balky handshake credentials that force many consumers to reboot their TVs to recover permission to watch them. Even broadcast flagging, which has been overturned by the Court of Appeals, is still on the de-facto table, as the entertainment lobby retains the power to bully technology companies into baking broadcast flagging into their wares. Sure, digital TV has far fewer points of origin than the Internet and is therefore easier to control, but, as Yager writes, 'Internet rights restrictions come through your telecommunications equipment' - and it is likely through that equipment that the entertainment and broadcast lobbies will chip away at your rights on the Web." ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
