Gil T Pleasure used our news submit to tell us that there is a new type
of copy protection being brewed that we may need to keep our eye on. Looks like
local TV enjoys it's blackouts and does not appreciate it when people copy the
programming and set it free on the Net! This is a just another spin on the
contraversial Broadcast Flag rules we have been reading about the past year
or so.
Under ordinary
broadcast rules, devices will be barred from redistributing digital TV content
over the Internet. Among other things, this could interfere with a simple
redistribution through a home network. So companies are trying to figure
out ways to let us watch in our local networks, but keep it off the "devils
playground". This latest concept keeps local broadcasts from being
redistributed outside it's market area.
Companies have used a few different tests, such as seeing how long a Alternately, a computer might look at how many different networks are By letting devices assign themselves to home TV markets and transmit |
We probably wont see John Q. Public knocking down the
doors at the local BestBuy for one of these, if we have a choice that
is! I have a hard enough time making consumer electronics work over a
network as it is. Something like this just makes it even more likely that the
troubleshooting will be intensified. It's very easy to imagine a lack of
cooperation between electronic devices becoming an infuriating nuisance, so
buyer beware. Read the whole story over at C|Net.
Source: C|Net
