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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I never said the two were exactly alike... of course they're not.
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Not even similar. Cable TV DRM (if you want to call it that) is protecting the service, not the content.
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Copyright is still in effect: You can watch shows, you can tape them and watch them later, but you are still forbidden to use those shows for your own profit.
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Exactly. The reason you can tape/etc is because the DRM is not on the content. The cable industry does not use DRM to enforce copyright (as the media content industry does). They are using it to enforce their service. Those are two very different things.
I'm not even sure I'd call what the Cable company does "DRM".