Connecting the home networking dots

Pushing the bits easy, DRM is the tough one for me.: I set up a few wireless nets for homeless including myself. Setting up the router and client PCs was no different than in a wired environment. We also locked the routers to only accept NICs that I defined in the security policy of the router. So how many causal home users even know about security policy? What it is and why it may be a good thing to think about?

Next up was the TiVo box hookup and that worked just dandy. So I got TiVo on the net with both Windows and Linux boxes. I can stream mp3 and photos from the XP box to the TiVo and listen/view through my AV system in the living room. Works great.

The thing I can not do is stream Apple iTunes purchases from my PC to the TiVo. DRM is the issue. I also can not stream video in any format of any kind. So from what I can see, even though I buy content, the DRM issues do not allow me to tap into the things I LEGALLY purchased. And that my friends, will cripple adoption of all these schemes, they do not respect the fact that I bought something to use legally. Yes, I could spend a few hundred dollars more and buy stuff from Apple and hook it directly to my AV systems around the house but I got the network, the nodes are enabled, why is the DRM stopping me?; Posted by: Sunny Jalolly Posted on: 01/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Blah, blah, blah Patrick Jones | 01/27/05

Most people I know.... voska | 01/28/05

Easy for non-techs? Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/27/05

Home networking olsubsailor | 01/27/05

Networking is hard??? alterego_z | 01/27/05

Silo mentality Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/27/05

Re: Silo mentality alterego_z | 01/27/05

The Rise of the Machines Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/27/05

Re: Rise of the Machines alterego_z | 01/27/05

You, you, you Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/27/05

Support freedom! Sunny Jalolly | 01/27/05

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