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From: | Larry Garfield |
Subject: | Re: [DMCA-Activists] More on: PC HDTV Tuners and "Broadcast Flag" |
Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:06:55 -0600 |
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Seth Johnson wrote:
will they eradicate the old drivers from the Internet? Will it be possible to write FCC compliant open-source drivers for theHD-2000card? I believe a couple of the cards don't provide access to the ATSC stream, thus making it impossible to detect the flag.
The activist in me feels that the effort should be under way to write FCC-non-compliant open source drivers for it, and make them damned good. Host them offshore if you have to, but fight every bloody inch.
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 address@hidden ICQ: 6817012"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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