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Broadcast Flag

Broadcast Flag

Posted Apr 26, 2005 5:38 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The issue in Japan by Ross
Parent article: Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote

Sorry to reply to myself, but here's an interesting interview with the
founder of pcHDTV (the only Linux-only HDTV capture card) which discusses a
few of the requirements of the broadcast flag:

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/04/20/pctv.html

As you can see there is no way a software implementation, especially an
open source one, could meet the requirements.


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