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    FCC needs to get involved now

    Absolutely you do NOT want the FCC involved here. That would set precedent. Do you see companies clammering to the Feds when Wal-Mart won't carry a product anymore because Wal-mart doesn't like the bulk price point? This is business. Yes the subscribers loose out, but it is what it is. The...
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Your journalists re-write the AP stories?!?! :eek: All the stuff around here is rip-and-read... And not pre-read. :P The stations around here give me enough to make a living. There's always something that needs to be done, i just told a few stations "hey, contract me 20 hours a week, i'll give...
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Talk about a thread drift! :) I'm the "project analyst" for KVSC-FM in St. Cloud, MN. One of the few public stations not part of NPR/MPR. Typical college radio. Rule is, if it's been on mainstream radio in the past 10 years, we don't play it!
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Yep, it's rather unfortunate too. Ratings can drop through no fault of your own. Trends change. Though engineers are now becoming an expendable item around a station too, we spend money and save money, we provide no revenue. GMs are thinking that it's cheaper to call a guy in an emergency than...
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Fair use says that i'm allowed one backup, yet the DMCA enacts the protection mechanisms to not allow it. It's a very gray area imo. Thus, i still do back up my media, legal or not.
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    The simple point of the matter is that this "crack" or breach in the security, which was supposed to be for the "protection" of the consumer (yeah right) doesn't really mean much. As has been said before, BD player keys were broken within 6 months of inception. The HDCP crack would allow a...
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Yeah, we stopped taking Sony discs too. ;) We're actually kinda pissed that we don't get CDs anymore from a lot of labels. They all want us to go to myspace and get them from there... they seem to think that audio quality is universal. This is our new fight. Dumbasses who think 24khz mono...
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    DRM / HDCP Cracked - could this be good news for consumers?

    Okay, i can't help but chime in because people seem to think this whole digital copy thing is black and white. (pardon the pun) Now, the movie industry hated the invention of instant replay back in the 60's, they REALLY hated the invention of the VCR (with integrated tuners!) in the 70's, but...
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