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Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed
kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, 'muslix64' was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release 'Serenity.' Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here's a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"
The Lawyers
Man them...
The point of HDCP is that they need to stop anybody from doing it. There are enough people with lots of movie and time to burn buying and setting up kit to do realtime DVI/HDMI stream capturing. It only takes one person to do this for a movie, stick it on the net and everyone can get it. HDCP is to try and stop EVERYONE, not just consumers but everyone from copying it. HDCP sucks for consumers because it means your 3 month old £3000 50" LCD TV might not be able to play movies in 2-3 years time because some monkey for a media company and some monkey from the TV companies have had a meeting and decided they want people to buy new TVs again. Similar to Microsoft giving the finger to all PlaysForSure customers with the Zune.