[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 @ 07:58 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 11:50:10 CDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] encrypted video cable?
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >Hollywood and Senator Disney want Blu-Ray to be totally locked up and
> >remotely controlled.
> >
> >It won't just affect videos either: it will affect your ability to use
> >it as data storage because pragmatically useful data storage is a threat
> >to media protection.
> 
> Wasn't this canard put to rest with CD-R media years ago?

It's not a canard.

CD-R never had the technology to put severe restrictions on how it was
used.

With DVD they tried to do it, but consumer backlash was severe, and the
never could fully agree on the standards.  What they did come up with
was easily broken.

Blu-ray is being created with these ideas as part of its fundamental
design.

The only way to change that is to not accept it, which is largely what
defeated attempts to create unified restrictions on DVDs.

The market can stop stupidity, if it chooses to.


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