Kirium Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 The Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium sets digital television transmission specs for much of the world, but in recent years the group has turned its attention to crafting something far more controversial: a broadcast flag. While the FCC's attempt to force such a flag on the US market failed several years ago, DVB looks to be gearing up for a similar push that would especially affect European consumers, who already use DVB-T technology. If all goes according to plan, "fair dealing" ("fair use" in the US) could become irrelevant; broadcasters will truly control the horizontal and the vertical.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the only public-interest group that sat in on DVB's technical meetings over the last three years, and they recently sounded the alarm over the finalization of the Content Protection and Copy Management (CPCM) system. Though some commentators talk about CPCM as a new development, the spec has been under development since 2003. The EFF warned about the direction that CPCM was taking back in 2005, but the spec has now emerged from DVB and is ready for ratification by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Click on link for the rest of the article http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070...not-get-it.html
djOS Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 I have this to say to the "Content Industry": Garn Git Farked! The bastards can keep their greedy fat fingers off my Toppy and MediaPC!
half pint Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 sounds worrying especialy when people are using PVRs to watch what they want, when they want. if a programme wotn record onto a PVR then it wont be watched. Something has already happened to toppys that prevented them from timeshifting or recording certain programmes in 2005. In the UK, during September 2005, people were unable to record or timeshift any channels from the Digital terestial subscription service, Top up TV. when you pressed pause, the image froze, then went straight to live when you un paused, re-wind also caused the image to freeze instead of going back, then it jumped straight to live, Recordings always ended up with a file size of zero, and wouldnt play back. This all happened at the same time as top up Tv changing something in the encryption, it was rumoured that it was to do with a sports channel, setanta starting a pay per view service on digital terestial with top up TV providing the subscription collection services. It was rumoured that to make sure that people couldnt record it, a flag was added to top up TVs encryption that stopped PVRs recording anything with that flag. Top up TV denied anything, and blamed it on topfield, although all the freeview channels were completly un affected, and the only thung that changed was the launch of a Pay per view sports service. The encyption service works via the MHEG interactive text service, if fyou tune into a PPV channel when its open, you will get a unique code number, a premium phone number, and a box to enter an unlock code via the remote. you call the premium phone number quote the unique unlock code, and enter it into the on screen box, the MHEG system then re-directs the set top box, or PVR to a hidden audio/video stream, based on the audio/video PIDs. PPV pay per night porn is still available using the same pay per view encryption system, but without recording being affected. there some more info on the aleged flag and people being unable to recrod stuff on their toppys in the UK here
DrP Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 Top up TV denied anything, and blamed it on topfield, although all the freeview channels were completly un affected, and the only thung that changed was the launch of a Pay per view sports service. It wasn't just Topfield boxes that got hit by the problem either. The encyption service works via the MHEG interactive text service, if fyou tune into a PPV channel when its open, you will get a unique code number, a premium phone number, and a box to enter an unlock code via the remote. you call the premium phone number quote the unique unlock code, and enter it into the on screen box, the MHEG system then re-directs the set top box, or PVR to a hidden audio/video stream, based on the audio/video PIDs. The actual encryption system used by TopupTV is mediaguard (SECA and now Nagra). It requires a smart card etc. Services protected by mediaguard were the ones affected by the problem. The MHEG PID redirection was a poor man's content protection system. The actual program PIDs for some of the channels protected this way (including 'red hot' a porn channel) were actually transmitted in the clear and could be received by any STB that you could manually define a channel on.
half pint Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 the adult/porn channel Television X is currently using the hiden PID 'encryption' system, to get it free of charge you need to be able to find the hidden stream thats being broadcast, as the PID numbers sometimes change. to do this you need a P.C with a tuner card and some software to analise the DTT stream. you can then wathc it on your P.C or input the video/audio PIDs into a set top box/iDTV that allows you to tune channels this way ( not many do). One nights viewing currently costs £5.99.
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