The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to the sale or resale of a product that was manufactured prior to the effective date of this subpart OR THAT INITIALLY WAS SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS SUBPART.
Am I missing something or does that last part seem to imply that cards can be compliant even if they are trivially modifiable (say via firmware upgrade) to make them non-compliant? I can't imagine them leaving such a big hole in the regulations.
No, they closed that one in the "robustness" rules for covered devices.
� 73.9007 Robustness Requirements for Covered Demodulator Products.
The content protection requirements set forth in the Demodulator Compliance
Requirements shall be implemented in a reasonable method so that they cannot be
defeated or circumvented merely by an ordinary user using generally-available tools or
equipment. The requirements of this section shall become applicable on July 1, 2005.
Note to �73.9007. Generally-available tools or equipment means tools or
equipment that are widely available at a reasonable price, including but not limited to,
screwdrivers, jumpers, clips and soldering irons. Generally-available tools or equipment
also means specialized electronic tools or software tools that are widely available at a
reasonable price, other than devices or technologies that are designed and made available
for the specific purpose of bypassing or circumventing the protection technologies used
to meet the requirements set forth in this subpart. Such specialized electronic tools or
software tools includes, but is not limited to, EEPROM readers and writers, debuggers or
decompilers.
--Wendy
-- Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Frontier Foundation Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ Chilling Effects: http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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