dnm;540718 Wrote: > > I am assuming you are referring to the facilitate "stream ripping" > clause? Could be solved through license by agreement and sending > scrambled audio (in such a way that spotify agrees too). Nothing > magical about it. >
Right, and put that into an open source server, so the 'scrambling' would be documented? > > Hopefully not every time you add a channel to network broadcasting you > would throw out the TV? > No, I would demand that when they added color to NTSC, or opened up UHF, or switched to ATSC, that the TV maker supply me with a new tv or retrofit my existing one to make it just work. The Squeezebox line has been excellent in adding services, the feature set of old products keeps growing.. but when someone uses Yet Another Simulated DRM method for no real reason, it's just silly. There is a limit to the number of codecs that can be supported, especially on ip3k platforms. And when DRM is involved, that code can't simply be moved to the server. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72390 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss