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I was curious about one of the exceptions that he mentioned: > Our game console repair petition was denied, meaning repairs of PS4 and Xbox One systems are goi
by larrymcp 8y ago
I was curious about one of the exceptions that he mentioned:
> Our game console repair petition was denied, meaning repairs of PS4 and Xbox One systems are going to stay expensive.
Wonder why game systems were excluded? They're basically computers too.
- bubblethink 8y agoLikely related to the third point in that list. >An exemption request by Bunnie Huang and EFF to bypass HDCP ... was denied. Both of these are too close to real money that it would be hard to get exemptions. All the conventional blu ray (i.e., not 4K) DRM stuff and HDCP has been broken for a while. If you can replace the optical drives in game consoles legally, you can circumvent DRM too. There are/were non compliant dvd and blu ray players that don't give a shit about DRM or geo blocking (region locked media).
- matheusmoreira 8y agoSame reason repairs that required bypassing HDCP were denied: it would weaken the effectiveness of the DRM implemented by current high definition media formats. The billion dollar copyright industry won't stand for that.