Comment Circumvention required for SOME Tivos (Score 4, Informative) 371
I have a DirecTivo and participate in the Deal Database forums regarding Extraction, etc.
I wanted to mention that extraction of video from Standalone Tivo does not require circumvention, but extraction from DirecTivo units does.
DirecTivo's store the stream from DirecTV directly to the hard disk. Though it is stored AFTER the Access Card has decrypted it, it is re-encrypted when written to the hard drive.
A smart person over at the forums wrote a kernel module that disables this (noscramble.o). This allows you to extract TYstreams (almost MPEG-2 :)
So, from what I've read above, this loophole only applies to Standalone Tivo units.
I wanted to mention that extraction of video from Standalone Tivo does not require circumvention, but extraction from DirecTivo units does.
DirecTivo's store the stream from DirecTV directly to the hard disk. Though it is stored AFTER the Access Card has decrypted it, it is re-encrypted when written to the hard drive.
A smart person over at the forums wrote a kernel module that disables this (noscramble.o). This allows you to extract TYstreams (almost MPEG-2
So, from what I've read above, this loophole only applies to Standalone Tivo units.
