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I'm old enough to remember the VCR then you were allow to make personal copies. In my country it is still legal todo so for personal use but DRM prohibits one f

by acd 11y ago

I'm old enough to remember the VCR then you were allow to make personal copies. In my country it is still legal todo so for personal use but DRM prohibits one from excercising this legal right. HDMI HDCP All easily mitigated with some Chinese hardware that for an hacker is easy to come by but a little harder for the average consumer. I guess rights holders fear that there will TV 2.0 on the darknet, given how much bandwidth people will have cheaply in the future its quite likely that such a system will emerge. I guess they fear the Popcorntime of TV which may be vastly to the commercial offers. Pirates does not need to negotiate content agreements just make good software. I'd like to pay for my TV service but it should be good an innovative.

smeyer 11y ago
>I'm old enough to remember the VCR then you were allow to make personal copies. There was analog copy protection on VHS as well.
- kaybe 11y ago
  In Germany you actually pay a tax for empty data storage and the writing machine (as described here [1], and here [2] (with prices in German)). For example, an external harddrive ≥ 1 TB will cost you 9.00 € in tax. This is supposed to cover personal copies (but does not give you the right to circumvent copy protection). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe edit: Just saw the prices for mobile phones with touchscreen and over 8 GB storage: 36,00 €! Wow.