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BBC wants to lock-down Freeview HD content

article published on 18 September, 2009

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has appealed to regulator Ofcom to be allowed to use encryption on Freeview HD data to prevent piracy. Of course, the request was immediately criticized as under licensing rules, the BBC is not allowed to encrypt video or audio streams. However, the BBC is requesting it be allowed to encrypt the data associated with TV listings, which in effect ... [ read the full article ]

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eiamhere
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_ 		18. September 2009 @ 03:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Does this mean they do not require us to pay our tax.... I mean licence fees now. Seems fair considering they are restricting viewing for the very people who pay extortionate amounts to fund the BBC.
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pphoenix
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_ 		18. September 2009 @ 03:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sony & co want full control, we say go away.

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# The Walt Disney Company
# Sony Pictures
# Paramount Pictures Viacom?(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
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pippincp
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_ 		18. September 2009 @ 09:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by eiamhere:
 Does this mean they do not require us to pay our tax.... I mean licence fees now. Seems fair considering they are restricting viewing for the very people who pay extortionate amounts to fund the BBC.
Well I'd say go ahead with encryption if the licence fee was removed. It would then just be another challenge to crack it so it wouldn't last long.

They can't have it both ways ie charge just to be able to receive and also encrypt.
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shaffaaf
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_ 		18. September 2009 @ 11:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Sony & co want full control, we say go away.

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only trusted manufacturers
MPAA:

# The Walt Disney Company
# Sony Pictures
# Paramount Pictures Viacom?(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
and this has to do with the BBC what exactly?
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MWRMWR
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_ 		18. September 2009 @ 18:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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the BBC is not allowed to encrypt video or audio streams.
Anyone know if they can encrypt subtitle data streams... or is it bundled with the program schedule data the BBC wants to encrypt ?
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pphoenix
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_ 		19. September 2009 @ 01:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by shaffaaf:
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Sony & co want full control, we say go away.

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only trusted manufacturers
MPAA:

# The Walt Disney Company
# Sony Pictures
# Paramount Pictures Viacom?(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
and this has to do with the BBC what exactly?
if you read the BBC page then goto the EFF page u would realise that it's the MPAA that are trying to force the BBC to adopt these draconian measures.
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KillerBug
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_ 		19. September 2009 @ 05:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
GAWD...the MPAA has screwed over the entire american TV system, and now they are trying to screw over what is left of the foreign TV systems.

Motion Picture Association of America = MPAA

What part of that says that they should be forcing DRM on an english TV network?
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shaffaaf
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_ 		19. September 2009 @ 18:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and they being in america are trying to for this british company how exactly?
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