The electromagnetic spectrum is OURS collectively. Public broadcast licenses are rooted in the idea of a well informed public is good for everyone.
Encryption is just a move to monetize what is otherwise a public resource.
I object to that and will be making a comment to that effect.
Thanks for the heads up.
Sadly not all that far from reality given how Booz Allen Hamilton has profited off of running recreation.gov. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting...
But the content being played over it likely isn't.
Please do some critical thinking. There have been 3 new versions of HDCP since that leak and they have all broken backwards compatiblity. Do you think they still use that leaked key? Or do you think as they have improved the security of HDCP they have replaced the key?
If you went and looked at the security of Linux from over 10 years ago you would find some bad security vulnerabilities which have now been since patched. Similarly the security of HDCP is getting better over time and newer content is requiring the higher security that is available.
How does that work in practice though? Does it mean I cannot read recent blu-rays with older blu-ray players with the old key?
Yes, newer blurays may require a new player or a system update for your player in order to play if they require a newer security baseline than what you have.
>planned obsolescence
Intel did not plan for older HDCP to be broken.
What's the maximum time a DRM system worked before being completely broken? 2 years? 3 years? It'd be surprising that they did not anticipate that. But then again, I'm not sure why they would really care, they don't really make movies as far as I know.
Are you trying to be pedantic? Technically the MMU prevents the copying. That is just an implementation detail. To content creators the distinction isn't important.
>DRM has never worked.
The barriers have seriously increased over time. Now you have to dump or buy a L1 key to decrypt content. Devices store the key securely which means that you either need to find a hardware vulnerability to leak the key or have a man on the inside to steal keyboxes. If you get caught your key / device will get blacklisted. With each year the price to break the DRM will increase.
Money makes the rules, the mainstream media pushes it out into the public and politicians set them in stone. The public has no say in this. At all. Any consent you perceive is either pushed hard for by the media, or is fabricated by pushing the screaming people into everyone else heads. Please stop being naive.
The only reason, why the groups in power even care about creating the illusion of massive public consent about anything, is because that's what they need to do to make sure their respective parties get re-elected.
(I'm a huge proponent that all infrastructure should be public, but I still think that carrier usage should be paid by the users, at least beyond some minimal usage)
Broadcasting is a "one-to-many" operation, where the target "many" is indeed the public. Concern about public interest is relevant.
Carriers create a "one-to-one" service. Users of the service are not being addressed in a public manner except in an infrastructural way (broadcast addresses in a content-oriented as well as infrastructural method). Concern about public interest can only be limited to "can any member of the public obtain this service?"