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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.