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To gain more control over the customer. To block recording so they can monetize live viewing and DVR/on demand/DVD sales viewing separately. To prevent pirate s
by supertrope 3y ago
To gain more control over the customer. To block recording so they can monetize live viewing and DVR/on demand/DVD sales viewing separately. To prevent pirate streams. To ensure commercials can’t be skipped. To enable paywalls. They want to get this rolled out and to set the expectation of DRM before ATSC 3.0 is popularly adopted.
Broadcasters have given some bogeyman reason of deepfake edits of broadcasts being possible. But I’m sure that will still be possible after encryption.
The last time this came up it this anti-feature was called the “broadcast flag” bit that would instruct hardware to refuse the viewer’s command to record.
Some cable TV operators let you DVR most channels except for premium channels or PPV events. Others block recording on every single channel just because they can. In either case any recordings are lost when the box breaks or is otherwise swapped.