Encryption

[hancox]

NAB filed a response at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/26110082679/1. I thought this line was particularly interesting:

Asking broadcast stations to disable content protection before and during the test would create artificial conditions that do not reflect how those stations would operate during an actual emergency.

Saying the quiet part out loud that they're going to prioritize DRM over making emergency communications available to as wide of an audience as possible.

So, they're either:
1) Ignoring their public service duty altogether, which would seem to be an issue, or
2) They're not testing what they would intend to do if there were an actual emergency, which is foolish, if not a same level of issue

If the FCC were awake, this would be the death knell for DRM.

[lenlab]

Or if they really cared or were interested.