TV's broadcast flag has its DRM moment

[admin]

Remember the broadcast flag? A few short years ago, the content industry was threatening to take its high-definition and digital content and go home if the US didn't require a broadcast flag that blocked copying. How times have changed.

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/tvs-broadcast-flag-has-its-drm-moment.ars

It's a very good thing that the broadcast flag (a flag to prevent recording of content) didn't make it into US digital transmissions, because that's one less DRM to worry about. The linked article goes into detail about the history of the broadcast flag, the scaremongering that went on back when the content owners were fighting to implement it.

[drfsupercenter]

Eh, you could easily evade that anyway...

I use TSReader and an antenna, and I can rip the OTA streams. Even if they put a "no copy flag", TSReader wouldn't care... most likely.