Comments on: Since when did Sony become ‘pirate’-friendly? http://www.last100.com/2008/02/26/since-when-did-sony-become-pirate-friendly/ Tracking the digital lifestyle Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:54:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steve O'Hear (editor) http://www.last100.com/2008/02/26/since-when-did-sony-become-pirate-friendly/#comment-43658 Steve O'Hear (editor) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:22:05 +0000 http://www.last100.com/2008/02/26/since-when-did-sony-become-pirate-friendly/#comment-43658 @Dave I agree that the ability to get content off of the PS3 is the real point with regards to PlayTV, and very welcome too (for iPod encoding not least). Point well made. Here in the UK cable and satellite dvrs make it impossible to move content, I think. However, for me it's DivX support on the PS3 that is still blowing my mind. I have a PS3 and stream DivXs from my Mac flawlessly. @Dave

I agree that the ability to get content off of the PS3 is the real point with regards to PlayTV, and very welcome too (for iPod encoding not least). Point well made. Here in the UK cable and satellite dvrs make it impossible to move content, I think.

However, for me it’s DivX support on the PS3 that is still blowing my mind. I have a PS3 and stream DivXs from my Mac flawlessly.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://www.last100.com/2008/02/26/since-when-did-sony-become-pirate-friendly/#comment-43649 Dave Zatz Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:11:11 +0000 http://www.last100.com/2008/02/26/since-when-did-sony-become-pirate-friendly/#comment-43649 Why would it have copy protection? This is stuff freely available over-the-air. In fact, here in the US the cable co's are regulated by the FCC to provide the locals unencrypted. (And I believe STBs are supposed to have active Firewire ports for content retrieval.) For me the story isn't the lack of encryption, it's providing methods to move the content off the PS3 - whether via placeshifting or transfer/download. Why would it have copy protection? This is stuff freely available over-the-air. In fact, here in the US the cable co’s are regulated by the FCC to provide the locals unencrypted. (And I believe STBs are supposed to have active Firewire ports for content retrieval.) For me the story isn’t the lack of encryption, it’s providing methods to move the content off the PS3 – whether via placeshifting or transfer/download.

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