<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 1/03/2009, at 8:15 PM, Sam Hadley-Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>(Repost, wrong subject line, sorry)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Wrong.. Very very wrong.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To watch a DVD under Linux you are circumventing TPM as you aren't <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">using a licensed program, likewise if you watch Sky. If sky provided <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">software to do this under Windows/Linux/Mac etc then we could do it <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">legally, methods like ndscam etc aren't just borderline illegal, they <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are illegal under the new laws.<br></blockquote><br>The Italian government realised the monopoly that News Corp had in their<br>country by tying their subscription to their "licensed" set top box. Sky<br>was forced to release a CAM to allow competition from other set top box<br>vendors. This seems like just pure common sense but no one here in NZ<br>has picked up on it. Think of it like buying Shell petrol and being told<br>you can only put it in a Honda vehicle.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can't compare their legislation with our laws. We have numerous monopolies operating in this country, and Sky's current position isn't officially classed as a monopoly.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Furthermore, the method of decrypting a DVB signal (ie: what goes on<br>inside a CAM module) is not secret, it is standards based. The problem<br>has always been the obscurity or non-conformance of the NDS<br>implementation. If Sky were ever to seek a prosecution for someone not<br>using their set top box, they would be guilty of using this new<br>copyright Act in order to protect a monopoly.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Most of the encryption/decryption systems in use for broadcast TV are proprietary closed systems, not open standards. They fact that these systems have been reverse engineered in other parts of the world does not make then legal to use here, or in a number of other countries for example the UK and US.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a number of "illegal" acts that you are unlikely to be prosecuted for. In some cases this is because you are unlikely to be caught, in other cases it is because people turn a blind eye. Neither of these things make the act legal, or remove the fact that you might at some point be prosecuted.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>