CEOs of 14 cable operators make an unconvincing case for...
CEOs of 14 cable operators make an unconvincing case for encrypting the basic tier in their letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (CD March 2 p4) asking that he seek a vote on rules allowing it industrywide, said a maker…
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of consumer electronics that wouldn’t work with scrambling. “The Cable Letters instead demonstrate quite different points: first, that encryption offers many benefits to cable operators, not consumers, and second, that cable operators only want those benefits if they are paid for by consumers, not the operators themselves,” Boxee said in a filing posted Friday to docket 11-169 (http://xrl.us/bmwqin). “There is no evidence that encryption would have a net positive environmental impact."