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Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang announces his newest project and goes into detail about how trouble from the DMCA was the impetus. He comments that unchecked power to license freedom of expression should not be trusted to corporate interests. The project, NeTV2, is being crowdfunded.
I'd like to share a project I'm working on that could have an impact on your future freedoms in the digital age. It's an open video development board I call NeTV2.
It's related to a lawsuit I've filed with the help of the EFF against the US government to reform Section 1201 of the DMCA. Currently, Section 1201 imbues media cartels with nearly unchecked power to prevent us from innovating and expressing ourselves, thus restricting our right to free speech.
At Boing Boing : Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @03:04PM (1 child)
The device includes everything needed for any kind of real time video manipulation and encryption stripping, it just isn't programed to do this. It looks like excelent value way of getting a very powerfull FPGA though if you have any video manipulation projects planned. For example I have seen an FPGA used to combined multiple HDMI streams into one for playing networked games split screen. You could also do things like map a projector onto a non flat screen using this (globes etc.).
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday May 15 2018, @09:12AM
So in reality it's going to be bought and used as an HDCP-strip device, it just won't be marketed that way.