Complexity2 wrote:
Rustyben wrote:DRM is handled at the hardware level it is 'only' communion related. An example would be a android tablet hooked up to a TV via HDMI. The connection can work fine until material that is DRM restricted from using that HDMI connection from the tablet. The tablet might 'throw' an error with 'DRMxx' (xx = number) but it is a reference for the content was not allowed per the content owner. The point is the hardware won't communicate if the path is not 'permitted'.
You keep saying it'll all "handled at the hardware level." Yet, that does not answer my question. So let me try another way.
Let's say my neighbor (I'll call him Tom) and I go to the store and buy identical TV sets. While shopping, we both pick up identical Roku players. We each go to our respective homes and hook up our brand new identical TVs and Rokus. Tom is paying for HBO. I am not. Tom tries to watch a show on HBO with success. I try to play the same show, but fail.
How did each of our identical brand new TVs and Rokus (the hardware) know what we were each paying for? I don't believe the TVs and/or Rokus were magically manufactured already knowing what we were each paying for. SOMETHING had to transmit that data from Comcast to our hardware. What is that SOMETHING?
This requires the person answering the question knows how Comcast transmits that information to the hardware. If you don't know, that's okay; just say so. I have greater respect for someone who says they don't know something than I have for someone who tries to offer an answer that does not actually answer the question.
I can't think of another way to say that the hardware is enforcing the owner's (of the particular) stream restrictions.