On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:24:52 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
|> On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:10:35 -0700 SAC 441 <SAC441@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|>
|> | The MPAA/RIAA cabal is now mandating that all
|> | Pay Per View have a Digital Rights Management coding that allows for
the
|> | expiration of a selection/purchase on a DVR after 24 hours on
|> | satellite systems whether viewed or not.If they also start to
implement
|> | this "feature" on CATV systems as well,Pay Per View is and will be a
|> | very unattractive option.In fact,it will downright "suck".
|>
|> The 24 hour restriction applies to viewing the REMAINDER of a movie
once you
|> have STARTED to view it. You can keep the movie for a longer period of
time
|> like 30 to 90 days before you START to view it.
|>
|
|
| I recall reading about this somewhere, and this is the same inference I
| got. There are times when I'll record a program, but the phone rings
| and I'm gone for a week or two before I get the chance to watch it. A
| 24 hours leash would crimp a schedule like that. However, any
| time-relevant leash would require some expectation that an internal
| clock function is maintained accurately and beyond viewer control.
If you have already _started_ to watch the movie, then yes, that can be a
problem. But it's not as bad of a problem for most people as the previous
incorrect inference had suggested.
They would be better off with a system that could correctly track how you
play the movie, and know that you have not finished it and let you resume
again later, possibly even starting over from the beginning. I suppose
what they don't want is for the movie to be playing over and over and over
hour after hour, day after day, as people visit and watch it any time they
want to. It would not be hard to prevent that and still let you resume
the
movie you started 4 weeks ago. Maybe their programmers are not the good
ones that could code the firmware to do that in a couple hours.
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