Who controls your TV?

[Skyler]

http://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_briefing_paper.php

Interesting stuff.

Seems pretty serious too, unlike most of these crazy schemes that are talked about, this stuff has had monthly conferences for years and a huge amount of planning (plotting?) has gone into this.

Obviously I think it's pretty stupid and shouldn't happen at all, but this isn't just the MPAA, it's a whole lot more.

 

[nath]

Imposing controls on where you watch a program. Even if you are given permission to move a program to your laptop or other portable devices, "geography controls" may kick in and stop playback once you leave home or a particular locale. These restrictions may be enforced using tamper-proof GPS receivers built in to your devices.

Quite possibly the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Hopefully the powers that be will agree :\

What tickles me though is that even if they do this stuff, someone's bound to find a dodgy way around it. As a result, I'll carry on downloading the shows I love and the legitimate consumers who've paid for it will suffer with all this shitty new technology. Anti-piracy measures pretty much always fuck over the paying consumers while pirates carry on as normal. Why do they never realise this?

 

[Fana]

Exactly what Nath says - DRM does jack shit to stop piracy, all it does is give the consumer an inferior product.

As for the powers that be not buying into this, small chanse of that with the ammount of lobbying money being thronw into this by the media industry. Money buys legislation, its as simple as that.

 

[Skyler]

Interesting hardly any responses to this given the weight of it.

Of course pirates will find ways eventually, but it will be a lot harder and the principle of the thing is crazy.

It would be a lot easier for them to stop pirates, but the benefits of pirating would go up rather than down.

I believe the real way to stop piracy is to make it less beneficial, not through lawsuits or warning letters, but through the way you provide content. Give us things that piracy can't replicate or do better (gj DRM).

 

[GReaper]

At the end of the day they'll probably end up causing more harm by trying to force this onto users. DRM has been fairly relaxed in the past, for example the majority of people can play a DVD on any device they choose but not copy it so easily. These restrictions will annoy the average user - a typical law abiding person who actually pays to watch the programmes.

The media companies should be taking advantage of the Internet instead of trying to restrict TV recording to try and plug the analogue hole. These companies are stuck in their old ways it and shows badly.

 

[Draylor]

Theyll learn eventually.

Hopefully the recent fun with HD-DVD/BluRay DRM technologies helps prove the point to even the densest paper shufflers.

 

[Raven]

TV died in the mid 90's only really good as background noise now so who really cares what happens/is happening to it.