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Hack Will Help Kill HD DVD Copy Protection?

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Princeton University researchers are saying that the hack used earlier this month to rip Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies is the first step towards making the AACS encryption standard obsolete.

Muslix64's BackupHDDVD software did not crack AACS, but it will make it easier for some technically adept users to decrypt movies, said Alex Halderman, a Princeton computer science student who, along with noted researcher Ed Felten, is calling the software "the first step in the meltdown of AACS."
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Same ol same ol...

The never ending game of cat and mouse
 
Opposite to what people think it is possible to protect data content in such a way that no one would be able to duplicate the data in a repetitive and trivial way. But it's simply not mass distributable and certainly way too expensive for producers and users. So companies like Sony will try to find "hybrids" like putting a rootkit program and intentionally cripple the medium to make it hard to read. The end result of such methods provoke the normal user into using alternative ways of getting the media content. The success of iTunes can very much be linked to this abuse.
 
I am glad that academia is fighting for the consumer's rights, since politics certainly are not.
 
I am glad that academia is fighting for the consumer's rights, since politics certainly are not.
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That's because the politicians are too busy lining their pockets and padding their bank accounts. *uck em all...
 
Soon enough some 7 year old kid will find create a hack to find the keys and combine that with the decrypting software. Unfortunately the poor kid will probably never be heard from again after the public release of the software. The Entertainment industry will merge with the NSA hording cryptographers and super computers in dark dank dungeons that will be the subjects of quests for mages and rouges.

Seriously though, when are these companies going to get a clue? You can't make something uncrackable that can still be used by the public and distributated to the masses. Come out with something that is actually worth spending my money on at a reasonable price point with a distribution system that is easy to use. And use a format that isn’t so easily scratched then rendered nearly if not totally useless.
 
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