Charlas,
It is not illegal if the encryption is kept and it is kept in a closed enviroment (like cable card recordings only streaming to extenders)
Hence Kaladescope won and proved this theory.
Core i5 with 8gb of ram, ceton infinitv tuner, 2 hdhr OTA tuners (4 total tuners). 3 xbox 360 slims.
PLUCKYHD:It is not illegal if the encryption is kept and it is kept in a closed enviroment (like cable card recordings only streaming to extenders) Hence Kaladescope won and proved this theory.
Totally agree. I wish Microsoft had focused on DVD Streaming as the central feature of Fiji. My reasoning is that it would have universal appeal to virtually every MC customer. And I'm positive it would drive MC adoption. Its probably the one thing that Microsoft could do alone and doesn't require additional hardware. Interestly, Microsoft has some patents out on this already. I'd like to hear Microsoft's take on the Kaledescope ruling?
How would they get sued for allowing just unecrypted coping like home movies?
I was not aware that something was added after the kaladascope trail?? I know they got sued and won and besides if a small company like kaladascope can win I would think Microsoft could and it wouldn't be the first/last time they got sued.
From my understanding, it's not illegal to make a "fair use" copy of something you own. What is illegal under the DMCA is to break the copy protection on a DVD. Therefore you can't legally copy a DVD because it requires breaking the copy protection. Not sure how you would stream a DVD without breaking the copy protection.
K was sued not because they were breaking the copy protection, but because they had a contract with the DVD folks. The DVD folks thought they were in breach of the contract, so the lawsuit was about breach of contract, not that they were copying DVDs. From memory. I think.
bjdraw:You know what would be really cool is a plug-in that when a DVD is interted will ask if you want to import it. Then rip the disc in a format that can be viewed on extenders and added to DVD library.Seems like all the pieces are there, just need a nice UI to make it easy.
Now you are with me Ben :) and thinking like Kaledescope :)
I could care less if it is locked down like cable card recordings just let me copy it uncompressed and stream to extenders without having to transcode everything dang thing.