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MPAA Fires Back at AACS Decryption Utility
RulerOf writes "The AACS Decryption utility released this past December known as BackupHDDVD originally authored by Muslix64 of the Doom9 forums has received its first official DMCA Takedown Notice. It has been widely speculated that the utility itself was not an infringing piece of software due to the fact that it is merely "a textbook implementation of AACS," written with the help of documents publicly available at the AACS LA's website, and that the AACS Volume Unique Keys that the end user isn't supposed to have access to are in fact the infringing content, but it appears that such is not the case." From the thread "...you must input keys and then it will decrypt the encrypted content. If this is the case, than according to the language of the DMCA it does sound like it is infringing. Section 1201(a) says that it is an infringement to "circumvent a technological measure." The phrase, "circumvent a technological measure" is defined as "descramb(ling) a scrambled work or decrypt(ing) an encrypted work, ... without the authority of the copyright owner." If BackupHDDVD does in fact decrypt encrypted content than per the DMCA it needs a license to do that."
1. Horse
2. Gate
3. ???
4. Profit!
They're firing back at the total and utter destruction of AACS by using... lawyers.
Yeah. That'll stop piracy.
Some MPAA members worship a deity who allegedly convinced them to elect the government which runs the university which runs the computer store which sold me the computer which allowed me to run my operating system which allowed me to download this utility which allowed me to circumvent this encryption... ...in the hole at the bottom of the sea.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Who has proliferated, most of all?
Why bother.
So there you have it. This is perfectly legal because AACS doesnt "effectively controls access."
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Infact that whole part of the law contradicts itself, if you have a technological measure that bipasses DRM, wouldnt that DRM not effectively control access to the work?
If i had one dollar for every brain you dont have, i would have $1.
Its almost as if the key controls the access and the software just uses the key to decrypt it!
I have a fox-trot cartoon clip in my cubicle
In it, the kid is sitting at his computer rubbing his hands and licking his lips. His mother asks him what he is is doing...
Mother: What are you doing?
Kid: I'm creating digital music. The first song I'll call "0" and the second I'll call "1".
Kid: Anybody who then publishes CDs with replicas of my content will be sued for Trillions of dollars due to Billions of instances of copyright infringements! MPAA & RIAA will be my first victims.
Mother: Remind me not to allow you to go to law school.
Kid: Ahhhh! To live in America! (dollar signs in his eyes).
Adeptus
No trees were killed in the making of this post; however, many trillions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
You obviously haven't seen my handwriting . . .
No beer, no TV make Lifthrasir something something
Try New Zealand:
- Relatively low murder rate
- Democracy in more than name only
- Mostly WASP population
- English Speaking - Technologically forward looking
- Good infrastructure
- No thought police, DMCA or Dumbya.
Is this one of those puzzles where you try to figure out the item in the list which doesn't belong?
No, see, you're thinking about laws rationally. Stop it.
by EvilIdler (21087) Alter Relationship on Wednesday February 28, @09:30PM (#18190720) (http://purehatred.org/) Doesn't New Zealand also have some unusually strict laws against certain types of horror movies?
there's a joke in here somewhere.
Dream on, kid. Try and put yourself against the entertainment majors. You will LOSE, big time.
Your childish fantasies are one thing, the harsh reality is another.
Could God could create a DRM so secure even he himself couldn't crack it?