Brian J. Murrell writes: > Fairly. Not to enable TV-Out on Radeons anyway. It's all got to do > with their licensing of CSS so that they can play DVDs I would > imagine. My guess is that RIAA (who is really at the root of all this > evil after-all) pulled an anti-trust kind of move and said to ATI, "If > you want to license the CSS 'stuff' you have to prevent copying of > DVDs" which ATI did with Macrovision which could be disabled with the > TV-Out specs and ATI was forced into closing out the TV-Out ability of > the code except for software which they can control. CSS licensing comes from the DVD CCA, which is associated with the MPAA, not the RIAA. MPAA doesn't directly control DVD CCA, but the studios participate in it. The news about Macrovision and specs is interesting. -- Seth Schoen Staff Technologist schoen@xxxxxxx Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ 454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 1 415 436 9333 x107
