Just curious because I don’t see people talk about it a lot.

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Atsc 3.0 requires an internet connection for it’s bullshit DRM

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Woww, over the air broadcasts with copy protection? 🤮

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It’s like they want OTA TV to die off.

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That seems entirely pointless then, why not just stream the content.

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Bandwidth is cheaper from the tower since the signal is the “same” for each client and it can then be distributed over a wide area. You send the “DRM” (Just a fancy encryption key) over the network since it’s relatively small and likely unique to each device (probably fingerprinting the device ids to the content invisibily in case of piracy).

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Having the receiver phone home would have the benefit of generating more accurate viewership data, where broadcast tv has historically relied on representative cohorts.

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Multicast is a thing, though it doesn’t seem to be widespread. That would make a lot more sense than this weird DRM broadcast system.

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