In 2007, the CableCard was designed to spur innovation in the set-top boxes, giving third parties a chance to plug into the cable ecosystem by installing a single card that would handle all the necessary encryption. But because of cable industry intransigence, it was a disaster. The result was too complex to properly implement and created huge headaches for both consumers and would-be box operators.
Today, Congressmen Bob Latta (R-OH) and Gene Green (D-TX) introduced a bill that would end the ban on integrated security, removing the need for Cablecards but also potentially muscling out third-party operators like Tivo. A new piece of bipartisan legislation would let cable boxes decrypt signals without a CableCard, lowering the bar for...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4774772/new-legislation-would-kill-cablecard-potentially-spell-trouble-for
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