Cable Crypto Coming

Cable Crypto Coming
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2000-12-21

DFAST is a content scrambling system for digital cable. Can DeDFAST be far behind?

Want people's opinions on this... 2000-12-22
Nightscreen

My opinion is that many people will end up toning down their watching of the Cable or Tv, whatever that may be affected because they have better things to pay for: bills, car, vacations, etc (whatever you can think of unless you're a couch potatoe).

Sorry Hollywood, but shows and movies are for enj...

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Why not take away more rights and choices 2000-12-23
thewild1 (at) startrekmail (dot) com [email concealed]

I see it, that by the time I have grandchildren of my own, not to far off, "They" will decide what we are going to watch, wear, eat, and what time we wake up, brush our teeth, and take a crap! Our socitiy, and govermenet, are taking more and more freedom from us everyday, I think we had more freedom...

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Cable Crypto 2000-12-23
Crow

Hmm, so are there any sites or petition drives to put a stop to this or are we just going to be silent?...

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it's a sick sad world 2000-12-27
slipjack (at) macroshaft (dot) org [email concealed]

i hate it when stuff like this happens,

before they were raping me with the regular prices,

now looks like they are going to start doing it without lube...

it's just sad,

all for the all mighty dollar...

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very possible in the near future... 2000-12-29
jynxbob

This may seem like sci-fi to some, but I can see the entertainment industry becoming increasingly entwined/entagled in the government. We've seen in the past year reports coming out about how the US government filtering Hollywood scripts and implanting anti-drug messages (to which I'm not sure I com...

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There goes the constitution 2001-01-01
Sean Grimes

This is truly sad for our constitutional rights. The Supreme Court has upheld the fair use act for years. To now see that we will be limited to what we are able to record is truly sad. This appears to be a ploy to make even more money off of consumers, even though on average a digital cable subscrip...

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This will only lead to the same we have lived before... 2001-01-02
Gunnar Wolf

I live in Mexico. Here, piracy is said to be heavily prosecuted - it is not. In most major streets you can see tables with hundreds of bootleg VHS tapes (DVD is still very new, and few people have it). Often, we can find VHS copies of films before they even hit the movie theaters - and we get the mo...

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Copy Protection Doesn't Work 2001-01-07
Copy Protection Doesn't Work (at) nowork.com (dot) pl [email concealed]

Copy protection didn't work on the Apple II, or on any other box that I've ever seen or worked with. Why? Because it has to EXECUTE. And if it can execute on a computer, a human can trace it, figure it out, and work around it. Eventually the fools who made software for the Apple figured this out ...

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What else can we restrict?? 2001-01-08
psobol (at) kansascity (dot) com [email concealed]

It seems lately that constitutional rights are heavily under attack by so-called do-gooders that think they have our best interests in mind. As an American, you have the right to do many things unless of course you chose not to. That too is a right. Robert Heinlien said it best:

"When any governmen...

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