[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 11:50:10 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] encrypted video cable?

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>Hollywood and Senator Disney want Blu-Ray to be totally locked up and
>remotely controlled.
>
>It won't just affect videos either: it will affect your ability to use
>it as data storage because pragmatically useful data storage is a threat
>to media protection.

Wasn't this canard put to rest with CD-R media years ago?

Lionel