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Originally Posted by metal_geek
For people concearned about the Time shifting, and whatnot on your PVR.
Once all the signal goes digital a byte will be assigned to all the data that comes to your TV/PVR that esentially describes how that piece of data can be displayed by that device.
So, for Example, You PVR a rerun of Beachcombers, and the byte is set to "0" you can play that recording, whenever you wish.
If you want to PVR, the latest Lost Episode, the byte is set to "1" you can PVR it, but won't be able to skip the commercials.
If you want to PVR the News, and the byte is set to "2" you can PVR it and skip the commercials.
If you want to PVR the superbowl, and the byte is set to "3" you will only be able to record it from your local station, and must watch the commercials.
Basically any combination of ways they want you to watch thier content, they can make happen. Any circumvention of that setup makes it illigal. This law is just another step in controling how, if, where, when and with what device you can watch or listen to something.
It's not the first step, alot of other things like changing format requirements by the CRTC, all had this stuff in mind before any of it was implementd. Some of these things are harder for the public to accept but in the end they don't really care if you accept it or not, the one who stays in government are the ones that can do it with the least ammount of public response..
Oh... and what does that mean for your PVR?... Depends, if you have say a shaw or bell one now. Depending on how old it is, it already has it built in, they'll just execute a clause in their terms of service which you may or may not have already read. If it's old, or "unsupported", then you'll just have to buy one from a "supported" provider.
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Good post.
It even gets better. They demoed a few years back a way by which they
could not only force you to watch the recorded commercials, but if the
channel that you had recorded had commercials in real-time, you are
forced to watch them too. So you get 2x the commercials in order to
watch your recorded content. Can you imagine how broken TV shows
would be at that point?
Tivo UK screwed up also, they made everyone's Tivo go on in the
middle of the night and record some TV show. Even if you were going
to record something else at that time, you got the TV show they wanted
you to have, your show didn't record. Tivo claimed it was an accident.
Also, with the Canadian DMCA, metal_geek is right. Bypassing the digital
aspect [DRM], and using the analog signal will be illegal. As would bypassing any of the above. And besides, why would you want analog if
weren't doing anything illegal?
How do they know if you are downloading illegal stuff? Use the RIAA
method, toss out a lawsuit and make you prove you are innocent.
Even if you are innocent, you'll probably just pay to get rid of them.
I received a phone call from my provider once, saying that I downloaded
movies. What I had actually done was download 4 or 5 different versions
of Linux ISO's. Being new to the whole bittorrent thing, and my internet
connection being screwy (all fixed now though), these ISO's were over
4GB each. But it would get to 3.5GB and then the torrent would stop.
So I would delete it, and start over....and over...and over...imagine how
many times to break their "25GB limit" that they didn't specify anywhere.
(I didn't realize that you could keep what you downloaded, and just
continue
)
The person said, "We understand you want to watch movies, but you
have to keep it under your limit." I told them it was linux ISO's...and
they didn't believe me.
Obviously they do get it wrong.
ers