[linux-dvb] Re: CAMs - the never ending story...

[Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>]

Am 15.04.2002 16:41:11, schrieb Martin Springer <swann@camorra.org>:

>But the crucial issue is not whether you can watch TV "legally" by
>using a CAM or "illegally" by using a softcam.
>
>The big question is if it will be illegal to write and distribute GNU
>software like VDR which allows you decide on the way you watch tv by
>controlling your set-top box.

I don't think that this is a question convergence has to concern about, but Klaus.

>Software like VDR undermines the business models ofmovie moguls like
>Murdoch which rely on monitoring your behaviour and sending you
>targeted advertising.

The same is true for products like the Topfield 4000 PVR and many other commercially available 
hd-receivers. We don't want anything more than that what those machines (and the windows-
firmware) offer, compatibility with available CAMs and cards.

>In an article for the Washington Post, Jack Valenti, the CEO of the
>Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) postulated:
>
>     Computer and video-device companies need to sit at the table with
>     the movie industry. Together, in good-faith talks, they must
>     agree on the ingredients for creating strong protection for
>     copyrighted films and then swiftly implement that agreement to
>     make it an Internet reality. Without concord, one option is left:
>     Congress must step in to protect valuable creative works on the
>     Net and thereby benefit consumers by giving them another choice
>     for movie viewing.

This article is about the distribution of movies via internet, not about satellite-broadcasts, be them 
open or encrypted. Encrypted DVB-broadcast via satellite/cable is already there and works with 
many products on the market. We just want that, nothing more.

>Can you imagine Klaus and the driver developers sitting at the table
>with Jack Valenti?

Do you believe that the korean makers of the Topfield or the emtech (supporting transfer of 
recordings via USB to/from a PC) DVB-receivers have been sitting at such a table? I don't.

Greetings,   Marcus




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