[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 @ 10:04 -0800, Jon Gilbert said:

> On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > It's called an encrypted video cable because it is unique and a device
> > that detects it is being used can refuse to send non-encrypted data
> > across it at full quality.
> 
> What if you created the content and WANT it to be copied extensively?  
> Then what?

What are you, some kind of commie pig?

	:-)

You aren't required to encrypt, not yet.

However, you probably will have to in the future.  What the industry
says is that you'll simply use a key that all players know that are used
for public media and that sort of thing.

Of course, being a paranoid lunatic, I think that means an end to
content that isn't tagged in some way. They could even require that all
open content be signed with a key that is unique to you.

You know... to keep terrorists and other subversives from distributing
"bad things".

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