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AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the guerilla-bloggers dept.

Jonas Wisser writes "The BBC is carrying the story that AACS has promised to take action against those who have posted the AACS crack online. Michael Ayers, chairperson of AACS, noted that the cracked key has now been revoked, and went on to say, 'Some people clearly think it's a First Amendment issue. There is no intent from us to interfere with people's right to discuss copy protection. We respect free speech.' The AACS website tells consumers how they can 'continue to enjoy content protected by AACS' by 'refreshing the encryption keys associated with their HD DVD and Blu-ray software players.'"

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  1. Michael, you're dumb even by MAFIAA standards by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "This is the first round and will not be the last," he added.

    Well, he certainly has that part right. What he fails to appreciate is that he will be on the losing end of every single one of those rounds. Even as he tries to downplay the key by saying it has been revoked, AACS has already lost the second round (as hackers have created a hack that CAN'T be revoked).

    Always a step behind, buddy. But feel free to keep wasting your money and pissing people off.

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  2. Re:09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    The lameness filter is built on compression ratios and obvious problems with the post. (e.g. ALL CAPS!) Encrypted text rarely compresses well, so it passes with flying colors.

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  3. Re:09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those of you having trouble reading that, there's a Javascript RC4 decrypter here:

    http://shop-js.sourceforge.net/crypto.htm

  4. we need MORE mirrors by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Informative

    He said tracking down everyone who had published the keys was a "resource intensive exercise". A search on Google shows almost 700,000 pages have published the key.

    only 700k sites?

    come on guys, get CRACKIN'.

    if you want to really make their jobs harder, embed that number EVERYWHERE. keep their minions searching for this for YEARS.

    afterall, they have nothing better (truely) to do with their time ;)

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  5. Re:Cue oft-used Leia quote... by Biotech9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try Philips instead of Sony, the difference is obvious when you look at their players. Philips have no labels, or movie making divisions, so they have nothing to lose with hardware that is lax about playing as many file types as possible. They already have DVD players with USB ports for Harddrives that play Divx, and media players that record video feed to MPEG-2, play back DivX, and don't have any DRM to speak of.

    Also very easy to crack players, as far as region free goes.