I think you've mentioned this before, but what does it mean? The system as originally conceived requires the digital representation of flagged content to be protected by encryption on bus and media. I have more than a modicum of technical knowledge and I don't see an easy way around the proposed system in concept. Has the original system been abandoned? Or are you aware of some implementation flaw?
Now of course (so far) the over-the-air ATSC broadcasts are to remain in the clear. But again, building a practical ATSC receiver takes (IMHO) more than a modicum of technical knowledge--at least until there is a GNUradio cookbook and good canned DSP software.
So what exactly is going on with the broadcast flag? There seems to be a lot of misinformation floating around, including the absurd proposition that the copy management can never be expanded to include more than two states because of a lack of bits!
Dan Lanciani ddl@danlan.*com