That's just GREAT! (Not) Chappy, I was thinking the same exact thing when I read this. I understand that CableLabs is currently certifying TiVo's DRM for use in the Series 3 TiVo-To-Go and Multi-Room Viewing options. With the DRM cracked, CableLabs might have a hard time giving the DRM the ThumbsUp. I understand that studios have a need and a right to protect their content, but I disagree with the extent they have gone because it ultimately hurts consumers and the features they are able to utilize. Now, with this DRM cracked, we may never see TTV or MRV on the Series 3.
They're not just hurting consumers, they're causing the piracy. People are making easy to use apps for removing DRM because it's too restrictive. Then, when it's so easy, why pay?
If they didn't restrict the stuff quite so much (read: allowed tivo to do MRV and TTG before its release), then all of the motivation for cracking the DRM would have disappeared. It might have been a novelty for someone eventually, but many less people would have been trying because there would have been no point.
Content provider motto: Live and don't learn.
Drm schemes that are too restrictive are cracked day after day. If it's not too restrictive, people won't bother.
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That's just GREAT! (Not) Chappy, I was thinking the same exact thing when I read this. I understand that CableLabs is currently certifying TiVo's DRM for use in the Series 3 TiVo-To-Go and Multi-Room Viewing options. With the DRM cracked, CableLabs might have a hard time giving the DRM the ThumbsUp. I understand that studios have a need and a right to protect their content, but I disagree with the extent they have gone because it ultimately hurts consumers and the features they are able to utilize. Now, with this DRM cracked, we may never see TTV or MRV on the Series 3.
They're not just hurting consumers, they're causing the piracy. People are making easy to use apps for removing DRM because it's too restrictive. Then, when it's so easy, why pay?
If they didn't restrict the stuff quite so much (read: allowed tivo to do MRV and TTG before its release), then all of the motivation for cracking the DRM would have disappeared. It might have been a novelty for someone eventually, but many less people would have been trying because there would have been no point.
Content provider motto: Live and don't learn.
Drm schemes that are too restrictive are cracked day after day. If it's not too restrictive, people won't bother.