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Originally Posted by CCDMan
Sooner or later these companies are going to push too hard and go too far. History shows that once that happens, serious government regulation follows. Buying off Congress critters only works as long as the general public is not seriously pissed. Once they become seriously pissed, Congress has to listen, lobbyists or no lobbyists. The question only remains as to how long it will be before these companies get the general public (as opposed to us tech types) seriously pissed. They are working on it. <g>
Hmmm, I wonder if an HD-SDI mod would eliminate these DRM issues?
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I think they already have.
It takes a fair amount of work to update the firmware. It takes the same amount of work to use a hacked version of the firmware that bypasses all the DRM. The work by the customer to abide by the DRM is now equal to the effort to bypass it!
And what's worse, the existence of the firmware updates makes it 10 times easier to bypass the DRM. The hacker doesn't have to guess at how the DRM functions, he or she can take apart the update and simply know.