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DRM on free-to-air TV?
12 May 2026This has to be one of the silliest things I've ever heard of.
In the USA, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced its intention to add digital rights management (DRM) to "free to air" (FTA) broadcasts.
If they get their way, a new standard called ATSC 3.0 will be applied to broadcast signals and manufacturers will need to license the technology in order to provide decoding capabilites. One source suggests that this could add up to US$80 to the price of a TV set that meets the standard.
It might be tempting to suggest that all content creators and distributors deserve the right to protect their intellectual property from unauthorised copying -- but that's not what this is about.
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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