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Control of 'manufacturing' was never going to happen. They would literally have to prohibit the sale of high-speed DACs and ADCs to civilians. If you think the War on Drugs was an expensive boondoggle, try keeping LTC2216s out of my hands. :-P

However, it is the responsibility of the FCC to not throw up their hands and say "Duh, we don't know how to find 'em." They have one job -- regulating the use of the RF spectrum -- and that's it.

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Or have private-key encoding. That’s the case for HDMI: No-one can manufacture devices that aren’t approved.

Of course the funny part is, it’s designed so pirates can only send HDMI output to approved screens (=not recording devices), but for backwards comparibility, they has to allow HDMI-to-SVGA adapter with decoding, so the breach is wide open. But you get the intent: HDMI was supposed to bea fully-encrypted standard with only preapproved devices.

> HDMI was supposed to bea fully-encrypted standard with only preapproved devices.

Interesting. Where can I read more about this intent, and how it was compromised?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Conte...

The standard is called HDCP

Thanks. I found that before I asked the question. It doesn't indicate the intent of HDMI, or that HDCP compliance is mandated for HDMI devices.

The encryption is a legal issue, not a technical one. Of course it can be circumvented like all forms if drm.

The point is that by going around the drm, even if it’s by doing something trivial, you are committing a crime.

Until the key was extracted in 2010: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1122247

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