The broadcast flag returns

The broadcast flag returns

Posted Oct 6, 2005 6:46 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
Parent article: The broadcast flag returns

No, the fight in Europe is already taking place, no laws necessary. As
reported in several sources, for example here
(http://www.sat4all.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Numb...),
Dream Multimedia, manufacturer of Linux based satellite receivers is
being threathened by NDS, alias Ian Murdoch.

By means of the ETSI, NDS is accused to have prevented that Dream
Multimedia got a license for the CSA encryption of DVB signals. (They
would need to remove the ethernet port and make the software closed
before they would get one.)

As a result IBM is reported to be forbidden to ship their Vulcan chipsets
to DMM.

While this story has been mentioned in several sources, there have been
no official comments yet. If LWN is searching for a story to report
on... :)

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