Ok, but I can do that anyway because the signal is coming in to a Dish DVR (I know that not everyone has DVRs). I guess my point is that I am already buying it from Dish, and if I want to watch it again, I will do so on Dish equipment. I would think (and I could be way off base) that I and people like me would be the least likely ones to pirate the material.
That's long been the arguement about DRM ... the downside ...
DRM gives them the ability to delete content outside of your control
DRM doesn't stop the cracker/hacker/thief, they will simply circumvent it
DRM *does* cause damages to the fully honest and legitimate consumer.
Most famous of which would be the Root Kit that Sony/BMG were installing on users computers, just because the default setting of windows, was to "play" content from CD's as they are inserted into the machine ... Sony/BMG installed a "root kit" to hide its DRM application on your PC and what ended up happening was that their kit was flawed, crackers found it, and exploited it, so you legitimately bought that Music CD, put it in your machine and then (if not technically inclined) have to pay someone to fix your pc (and yes, later there were uninstall routines, and patches) the point being *you* were more than inconvenienced and yet *you* legally had your copy of the info..
So to this HDCP issue will start coming forward.. those precious splitters and HDMI to Component devices are required to live up to HDCP ... and *if* and *when* those devices are found to be in violation of HDCP, the firmware can get updates that will disallow those devices to function.
HDCP isn't a simple adapter issue ... there is a background to the specification that mandates updates to pull authorization from those devices and manufacturers codes out of the "allowed" column. It will happen .... just "not today".
(what do we say to death?)
