Thank You

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer]

Nick <get_iplayer at i.lucanops.net> wrote:

> Which is the irony of the enforcement of OTT IP. The restrictions won't
> ever truly work - even with some closed network, server and client system
> the end-user could still video the screen. And how much is a phone these
> days that can video something? :)

In the 1990s the pro-audio industry had something called SCMS (usually
pronounced "scums") - the Serial Copy Management System which made it
impossible to make digital copies of digital sound files; there were bits
set in the audio stream which told recorders not to record the audio.

It caused a lot of problems in the pro-audio industry itself, and in due
course SCMS strippers became available - little boxes that you'd pass a
digital audio stream through, which would remove the relevant bits but leave
the audio untouched.  Studios bought the boxes so they could continue to
work with whatever a client brought in.  Some pro gear had DIP switches on
the back so they could be configured to set/ignore the SCMS bits...

In other words it was circumventable.

More detail at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System


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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.