This is going to kill archivists. There are so many fascinating YouTube videos of things like the 1989 sf earthquake during the World Series [1] or tornados [2] that just so happened to be on someone’s VHS or TiVo. That James Taylor music in the first clip would require encryption (as would the fact that it’s the World Series), and the second clip would be encrypted because there’s no sense in complicating things by ever turning it off.
Huge loss if this happens. Looks like it probably will, though.
I'd be more ok with it, honestly, if public interest (news, local-origination programming, etc) content was illegal to encrypt, and it was only entertainment programming that they were allowed to encrypt. From what I'm understanding, though, the stations that have switched on encryption have done it wholesale, 24/7. To me, that is unacceptable.
I hope this is quickly cracked and spread far and wide. Fuck these grifter station groups and networks.
Huge loss if this happens. Looks like it probably will, though.
[1]: https://youtu.be/Z8ExMR0c0aM
[2]: https://youtu.be/FagzNHuI5JI