[opendtv] Re: Microsoft and the broadcast flag
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:57:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Self-important? I can actually generate the rc_descriptor. You cannot, and
you lack the ability to detect the rc_descriptor, or aberrations with it, as
well. I have an application I have written that can and actually does that.
I'll even be adding CGMS analysis as well.
So, now you continue on the path of doubling down even further.
A foolish question. How does this "broadcast protection flag" map to the
rc_descriptor? I'd say that it does not, since the rc_descriptor signifies
ONLY that a consumer device cannot redistribute programming. It was never
intended and it is outside of the spec to call it a broadcast progection flag.
Of course, fools still persist in their foolishness, and you search far and
wide, but can only find weak reeds for your non-existent positions.
HBC, last time I checked, didn't own, nor transmit through broadcast stations.
Yet, foolish you uses badly-written consumer level copy that ACTUALLY USES HBO
AS AN EXAMPLE!!!!!!!
'Currently, HBO sets the flag for some programming, and other broadcasters
might begin using the flag in the future'
HBO isn't a broadcaster, HBO doesn't PERMIT their content to be broadcast
(unless you consider DBS a broadcast) and no broadcaster transmits HBO. But,
fools like you will find these little turds by doing google searches for
'broadcast' and something else.
Of course, this is your 'news peg' for you to raise that turd or an argument
that somehow -- ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY -- assertion of the rc_descriptor
violates the Betamax decision. Hell, I even provided the holding in a
subsequent supreme court decision that said the contrary.
I think I'd better start avoiding Boeing aircraft, since you guys almost killed
Obama the other day (rear chute deployment during flight of an MD-80) and the
engineering and moreal standards there are quite low.
CGMS does indicate copy-protection status. The rc_descriptor does not. CGMS
use is permitted as is assertion of the broadcast flag. No court of compentent
jurisdiction -- the court of bert and tom and bob notwithstanding -- has ever
ruled otherwise.
Yeah, it's me that's self-important. You have heard of transference, have you
not Bert? Oh, you probably don't believe that psychanalysis even exists.
John Willkie, who has never IN HIS LIFE used the word 'broadcast' to apply to
cablecast content.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2008 12:32 PM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Microsoft and the broadcast flag
>
>There are any number of Microsoft references that show that WM applies
>some sort of copy protection filtering for CGMS and Broadcast Flag
>encoded TV streams, at least over Vista. But I was looking for something
>that stated explicitly that, according to Microsoft, the BF means that
>the content must not be copied.
>
>So, even the most unabashed of self-important fools can now understand
>that what is transmitted with the BF flag asserted is treated, by
>current WMP, as if it were CGMS copy-never.
>
>The result being, even if FOTA DTV broadcasters in principle "don't
>intend" the BF to violate the Betamax decision, when playing through
>Vista, it does.
>
>--------------------------------
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sync.mspx
>
>Q. Why can't I sync some of my TV shows to my device?
>
>A. Television broadcasters can prevent you from synchronizing a show to
>a device by setting a "broadcast protection flag" for the show.
>Currently, HBO sets the flag for some programming, and other
>broadcasters might begin using the flag in the future. If you cannot
>sync a certain show to your device, check the program information for
>the show on your computer. If the broadcaster has set the broadcast
>protection flag, the listing will indicate that the show is
>copy-protected.
>--------------------------------
>
>Or, to use the 2X4-on-the-head technique, as far as Microsoft is
>concerned, the Redistribution Control Descriptor is to be interpreted as
>"copy never."
>
>The FCC should perhaps send them a note.
>
>Bert
>
>
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