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Bevor jetzt noch einer Postet, dass das Abzeichnen der Bilder vom Fernsehschirm auch trotz Kopierschutz funktioniert:

Macrovision stört ausschließlich die analoge Aufnahmeaussteuerung eines analogen Videorecorders, sowie bei manchen Videoprojektoren die Pegel-Anpassung.

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Hier nochmal ein Artikel zum Kopierschutz, den ich schon in einem anderen Thread gepostet habe.
Und ich verspreche, das ist hier auch das letzte mal ;-)
Ein Artikel, bei dem es nicht um Premiere sondern um BSkyB geht. Dort wird klargestellt, dass Marcrovision ein Zwang der Studios ist und der PayTV-Provider es unterstützen muss.

Der Artikel stammt aus dem Daily Telegraph:

Microchip blocks TV recording of films
(Filed: 28/01/1999)

DIGITAL television broadcasters are stopping their viewers from recording pay-per-view films by using a secret chip hidden inside set-top decoders.

The chip, made by Macrovision, a Californian company, can be switched on or off by the broadcaster, and prevents viewers from recording films or other programmes they have paid for, and watching them later.

Broadcasting law allows viewers to record programmes for their own use, but not for commercial use. However, a spokesman for BSkyB said they are compelled by Hollywood studios to use the system on its digital pay-per-view film channels.

"We cannot negotiate on this. We are bound by Hollywood, which is concerned about movies we broadcast shortly before they go on rental in video shops," the spokesman said. "It is a bit of a nightmare if you are falling asleep in front of the television and want to tape the end of the film."

The spokesman said Macrovision could be used on popular programmes broadcast by BSkyB, such as Friends and ER. "It's not up to us. It's the programme vendor that will decide whether to extend it to, say, Friends, in which case we would have to abide by Warner Brothers' demands."

A spokesman for On Digital, the terrestrial digital television broadcaster, said it was talking to Macrovision. "The chip is in our system, but not enabled yet. Recording pay-per-view movies would seem a reasonable thing to do at home, but how do you stop pirates from running off thousands of copies in studio-quality picture and sound?"

According to a report in New Scientist, Jeremy Corcoran, Macrovision's pay-per-view director, hopes a deal will be signed with On Digital soon.

The Macrovision chip is a variation on a system used for the past decade on pre-recorded VHS videotapes. To make copy-proof tapes, manufacturers connect a Macrovision encoder between the master tape player and the slave decks that make authorised copies. The encoder adds extra pulses to the picture synchronisation pulses in the original signal, which do not affect the picture when the tape is viewed on a television. However, when illicit copies are made of the tape, the extra pulses fool the recorder into making a copy which is unwatchable.