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Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme

Posted by michael on from the ties-that-bind dept.

Anonymous Slashdotter writes "The IEEE Spectrum has a piece that discusses the proposed encryption scheme for the upcoming HD-DVD standard. 'The key to the spirit of compromise is an agreement that the AACS specification will allow consumers to move the data on an optical disc to the various devices they own, including video servers and portable video players, either directly or via a home network.' AACS will use a so-called strong key, the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology."

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  1. Heh... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I can see the ads in the theaters already. "I'm John Weiner and I design ciphers for the movie industry. Downloading movies hurts me."

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  2. Feature? by jacobcaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't not being able to copy "Who's Your Daddy?" multiple times a feature and not a bug?

  3. Stealing using recorders ??? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny
    "The Entertainment Industry assumes that all uses of recorders is for stealing copyrighted material. But that simply is not the case"

    Correct. It is technically impossible to steal a thing using a recorder, unless you do something really odd like club a victim witha VCR during a mugging, or heave a reel-to-reel unit through a jewelry store window in order to break in and burglarize it.

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  4. Re:So compromised keys make for faulty hardware? by k12linux · · Score: 4, Funny
    Consumers are really going to be interested in continuously buying new players or upgrading their current firmware to play new realeases because someone broke through their brand of player.
    This all seems like a set-up to me.
    1. Consumers buy scads of DVD equipment without knowing a compromized key will disable their player.
    2. Keys start to be cracked.
    3. Industry tells upset consumers that the reason they have to buy new equipment is evil cracker (not poor design/planning.)
    4. Consumers buy new equipment and demand that something be done to prevent this from happening again.
    5. MPAA and others get new super-DMCA laws passed.
    6. Attempting to watch a DVD on Linux is now punishable by death. (At least in Texas.)

    Yeah, I can see how the consumer wins in that scenario.