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Originally Posted by Breogan
You can still use VCRs and other analogic devices to record, but there will be a big quality loss (like watching old analogic TV vs. watching a DVD, as an example). The broadcasts will have a copy protection flag set as "copy only once", so you can copy it in your digital recording hardware but you won't be able to make further copies (what you refer to as child-grandchild copies, I think).
That copy will be stored and encrypted using the mentioned chip, and you won't be able to copy it anywhere else. The distributed effort they are trying to pull is to find a method to crack the encryption used to store the recorded digital broadcasts.
It's something like the DeCSS crack DVD-Jon figured, but using a brute force approach.
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True, but I am also aware that most otakus here own high end analogue video recorders (SVHS/ET, WVHS, ED-Beta, U-matics) stuck somewhere in their closets. Sure, they may not be as good as DVD recorders in crispiness, but it's also a chance for old-analogue fans to re-test their skills that they've left in the dust for the past several years...