[opendtv] Re: Valenti interview with TheTech

I think under the BF rules once any signal is demodulated it can only 
be sent to secure robust equipment by secure robust methods.   And I 
don't see how the following scenario can be implemented that way in 
any effective (legal) fashion.

- Tom

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> Kon wrote:
> 
> 
>>http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N20/ValentiIntervie.20f.html
>>
>>Here's the most interesting comment made by Valenti:
>>
>>"The broadcast flag -- if you are in your home, then you can copy
>>anything that's on over-the-air television to your heart's
>>content. The
>>only time that you will know there's a broadcast flag is if
>>you try to
>>take one of those copies and redistribute it on the Internet.
>>Then, the
>>flag says, 'No, you can't redistribute it.' But you can do everything
>>you're doing right now -- you'll never know there's a broadcast flag.
>>Well, why would people object to it?"
>>
>>I had questioned before if rebroadcasting an OTA stream at my
>>home via
>>IP multicast was legal or not. Good to see that indeed, it is.
> 
> 
> Kon,
> 
> This is all fine and good in a glossy viewgraph presentation, but
> how does a router vendor implement this? How does the vendor know
> when Port X in his router will be connecting to the Internet vs.
> connected to an in-house multimedia LAN? How does the router at
> one end of you in-house LAN know that there might not be another
> router connecting to the Internet at the other end?
> 
> How will the FCC decree that all routers in the US suddenly become
> BF-aware?
> 
> Of course, if this BF were merely a legal tool, you would say
> it's up to the user to set up his equipment correctly, or face
> possible legal consequences. But supposedly, this system is to be
> almost fool proof. To the extent that they want this stuff
> encased in epoxy or whatever.
> 
> Bert
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