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Stop gap
By Frazzle on 3/21/2007 11:57:52 AM , Rating: 2
This is all interim anyway. A lot of cable providers are moving to switched cable broadcasting in the next few years so this technology as it stands now will eventually be obsolete for a lot of consumers, at least until cablecard 2.0 comes out, which wil require new hardware and probably implement an updated protection scheme.

btw, as far as Cable Labs, keep in mind that their customers are not us, the consumer, but the cable companies and content providers. CL is taking their needs and desires into consideration and those needs are protecting their content and delivery systems. I don't blame CL or the cable companies for this crap. I blame the yahoos that illegally torrent HD programming. If Fair Use was actually being used fairly by all consumers then we wouldn't be burdened by all this DRM garbage in the first place. Sure, I understand it's only a small percentage who pirate, but that small percentage is royally screwing the rest of us over. The cable companies and content providers aren't spending these boatloads of money on DRM protection schemes purely for their health or to get their jollies.


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