Philips Targets Wireless TV Retransmission At Home

cadfael links to this EE Times story, excerpting: "Philips is attempting to start yet another industry initiative to tackle digital rights management, this time focusing on the wirelessly networked home. 'At stake here,' said Leon Husson, executive vice president of consumer businesses at Philips Semiconductors, 'is the "free-floating" copyrighted content that will soon be "redistributed" or "rebroadcast" to different TV sets throughout a home by consumers using wireless networking technologies like IEEE802.11.'"

With Implied Oral Consent...

[bhsx]

Not Expressed Written Consent :)

Wireless

[juggla]

Imagine! Video beamed right to your TV through the air. What's this world coming to?

Next on the plate...

[Xenopax]

Keeping aliens from infringing on copyrights. Engineers will have to figure out a way to track down all the radio signals that have left Earth in the last 100 years and block them as to prevent alien beings from enjoying content they have not payed for.

This is related to the article too because phase 2 of the plan is to prevent all wireless transmissions of anything so aliens that have reached earth cannot use thier moon-transglobifiers to enjoy content they haven't paid for. The aliens will just have to rent a house and order cable like everyone else.

Re:I fail to see the issue...

[jdunlevy]

" After all, I could just run coax to all the TVs in a house."

Don't tell them that! Otherwise they might come after me for redistributing copyrighted material from my antenna to my VCR and television.

Re:Next on the plate...

[linzeal]

Maybe the alien RIAA and MPAA have already done this and that is the reason that seti [seti.org] hasn't found anything.

Nothing New

[nanojath]

Man you ain't seen nothing. When I was a kid my dad used to open up a book and just read it OUT LOUD... to the whole house! And he was a minister!

It's sad we've all been so corrupted by IP theft. Thank God Phillips is there to keep us in line.

They haven't addressed one other transmission

[Hoi Polloi]

They haven't even touched on the possible IP violations caused by the trasmission of copywrited material by light to your eyes.

What they really need to crack down on. . .

[Davgeary]

What I'd like to see stopped is verbal rebroadcasting of tv shows. Every day of your life, you get to listen to a rehash of "Friends" or "Everybody Loves Raymond" through the cubicle farm. You know, "-and then Chandler said" conversations. This has got to be illegal, if only on infliction of emoptional distress. I'd buy anything that would stop these pirates.

Re:But should DRM always exist?

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess I'd better put GPS devices in the books I sell you then - make sure you're not carrying them from your bedroom to the living room.

Let's skip all these little steps.

[scott1853]

Ya know, I don't think we'd need to worry about the government implementing the Matrix, it's going to be the RIAA and MPAA, and Microsoft.

Why the hell would they think it's cost effective to prevent somebodies next door neighboor from grabbing a signal for some WWF pay-per-view event. By spending millions of dollars in man hours and equipment, they're going to protect themselves from the theft of a $7 show, that the thieves probably wouldn't have even watched if they had to pay for it.