[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Jon Gilbert <jjj at io.com>
>Date: 2006/10/29 Sun PM 12:04:22 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] encrypted video cable?

>On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> It's called an encrypted video cable because it is unique and a device
>> that detects it is being used can refuse to send non-encrypted data
>> across it at full quality.
>
>What if you created the content and WANT it to be copied extensively?  
>Then what?

I would assume some sort of DRM is required in the mix (i.e. the reader/player senses the presence of DRM on the file AND the "special" cable then it degrades the signal) - no DRM, no degredation.

Lionel