It's sports. Local games are often shown on broadcast TV while packages to view them in other regions are expensive. There's a huge network of sports streamers with ATSC tuners, most of whom who charge (a lot less than the package).
It'll maybe shut down the sports streamers for a year or two, at the cost of social good. Doesn't seem worth it to me!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
[2}: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
You can easily bypass any HDCP signal with $25 worth of stuff off Amazon and record it to your local PC with FOSS like OBS or even the built-in camera softwares.
All this does is make people have to spend more money to get less service. It disproportionately negatively affects the poor for no social good.
These people, and their customers, have a very different use case and this won't block them at all.
They can just use an HDCP stripper and an HDMI capture card and then re-encode it.
Failing that, they can just point a camera at a TV.
Sports viewers care a lot less about quality.
I'm not saying you're wrong that they are doing this because of sports, but, it won't do anything to curtail that.
Like any other drm, this will get worked around quickly at the cost of a worse experience for those following the rules.
>> It's sports.
That's silly. Sports are way more valuable to the consumer when watched in real time. There is very very little value in saving a copy.
> There's a huge network of sports streamers with ATSC tuners, most of whom who charge (a lot less than the package).