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HDCP Encryption Cracked, Details Unreleased Due To DMCA
Lord_Pall writes: "There's a very good article on SecurityFocus about a Dutch cryptographer. He apparently has cracked the HDCP video encryption standard, but won't release the research for fear of reprisals under the DMCA."
Update: 08/15 06:10 PM by J : Meanwhile, see
Keith Irwin's paper
which has been released despite the DMCA.
Update: 08/15 07:00 PM by J :
And someone else points out
this old thing.
Everyone who hasn't written a paper on cracking HDCP raise your hand.
What if he published in Holland and Intel downloaded his results into the U.S. in order to sue him under the DMCA, could Intel be done for entrapment?
Hint: Its called "reading the article before posting".
What for? Nobody else does unless there's cool pictures or video.
foobar
MSIE: The world's most standards-complaint web browser.
Doesn't apply in Russia, either. Go tell it to Dmitri.
Tell that to Dimitri Skylerov...dumbass.
The DMCA doesn't apply in Holland.
Not bad, but let us not forget that it is Barry Manilow that writes the songs that make the whole world sing. And that, my friends, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
What gets me is that companies are failing to make tough protection schemes and yet they get 'angry' when the protection scheme gets broken. I thought in the US, business is supposed to be all about competing to make profit. So rather than big business getting its act together to fix a weak product, they hide behind the law (DMCA). Some corporations (read: Associations) are such lazy asses....