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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. Re:How is this gonna http:stop large scale piracy? by Anita+Coney · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well, that's great. Not that people get software for free. But that it proves my point that DRM never really works.

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  2. oh boy by FluffyArmada · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a bunch of bull. Leave it to the Movie and Music industry to screw over its costumers by adding some bull**** incription to it. Their resistance is futile. We will watch out movies because we effing payed for them. Besides, some 17 year old guy from a europe'ish country *will* probably break it and we will in fact have some soft of HDDVDCSS gnu packages. :| ( much is quoted from an below article )

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