Ping worthy, Dave?
YaY!
Oh wait...I don’t have or watch TV.
Meh
I am surprised...or maybe not surprised, by the number of “Christians” from my own church who think nothing of stealing music, videos etc... through whatever means are available.
Is anyone surprised about this? What one geek can design, another geek can crack.
By definition, nothing digital can be truly encrypted forver, it is the nature of it. In the digital world there is no such thing as an unbreakable code given enough time.
The copyright laws will change, or the industry will go bankrupt.
Western nations are looking at 10 years of stagnation, there will never be a demand for the media products at the current cost levels.
Until the media and hardware manufacturers can adjust to this reality, they will continue to buy politicians and purchase their monopoly in the legal system while holding the cultural traditions of our societies hostage to their oligarchic rentier class tactics...
The number of cable television subscribers declined YoY in June for the first time in the history of the country. This trend will continue indefinitely for the next decade.
HDCP was the last bulwark before the media companies demand a Communist China and Iranian style mandatory internet backbone censorship network installed by Cisco and Siemens.