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AACS Revision Cracked A Week Before Release
stevedcc writes "Ars Technica is running a story about next week's release of AACS, which is intended to fix the currently compromised version. The only problem is, the patched version has already been cracked. From the article: 'AACS LA's attempts to stifle dissemination of AACS keys and prevent hackers from compromising new keys are obviously meeting with extremely limited success. The hacker collective continues to adapt to AACS revisions and is demonstrating a capacity to assimilate new volume keys at a rate which truly reveals the futility of resistance. If keys can be compromised before HD DVDs bearing those keys are even released into the wild, one has to question the viability of the entire key revocation model.'"
Sounds like the old days of the C64 boards. It started with 1day warez, soon there were 0day warez, before it was all done there were boards that only accepted -7day warez. That was warez (Cracked software) that were released no later than 7 days before the program was to hit the market!
Give up now and stop waisting money on something that will never work!
...feel like this will be one of those anthropological head-scratchers to historians in 50-100 years? DRM? What an odd culture they had there....
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about the great Consumer Revolt of 2007 in history classes.
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The list of revolt-ish type actions lately is getting quite long. I think the Internet is really starting to make its true value known.
Companies who want to force DRM on the consumers are simply terrified that they have no product and must force consumers to pay for distribution. The sad part is that they are wasting so much time, money, effort, and lobbying to try to stop what they never could before, and have no hope of stopping in the future; the sneaker-net is still alive and apparently doing very well with 500GB USB drives selling for less than 2 seasons of the Sopranos.
Digg, AACS, XM radio, and all that came before it. Oh, also that deal with the King and feet, the actress having sex on the beach... who knows how many more it will take
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That would actually be interesting. Digg ended the last uproar by saying "okay, we give up, go ahead and post it"... but by then the key had been posted to so many sites (largely in protest) that no one cared anymore. Even the AACS team must have realized that it was futile to now suppress the code. I'm sure they sent out plenty of other legal threats, but basically the code had been widely distributed.
But if someone posted a new Digg story, with the code... what would happen? Let's say Digg was the first (or one of the first) to "break" this story. Would Digg bury the story? Or let it stand? Would they begin another proactive campaign of suppressing the information? Or would they stick to their previous (rather belated) show of solidarity with their users? If they were one of the only sites distributing it, they would be (rightly) afraid of an imminent AACS legal threat.
It will be very interesting to see the reactions of the community and the AACS team as more keys are discovered and distributed. (Heck, it may occur that someone posts a bogus key story to Digg, just to mess with them.)
you have folks designing a roadblock into the process of decoding media, that doesn't always work, that is not supported on any of the minority OS... and they wonder why other folks keep cracking it?
you think maybe somebody out there in MogulLand would look at the swirling Warez underground, and for once think maybe, "geez, the free market says we are bumbling goons?"
apparently it only happens in Britain, where somebody at Electric Music Industries Ltd. woke up sober and straight one morning...
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Hey! I like watching a 5 minute diatribe accusing me of being a criminal. I love the way that they don't allow you to skip or FF through the little moral tale. I don't care that I have to wait to see the movie I paid $40 to "own"... every single time from now until doomsday.
It's suggested that this single annoyance drives ordinary people to learn how to rip dvds and in the process eliminate the wonderful story about drug dealing pirates; I couldn't possibly comment.
...movie industry remains convinced that they save more money by developing and implementing DRM than they would lose to piracy. You're not looking at the problem from the perspective of a corporate accountant. They don't look at developing and implementing DRM and say "look how much we are saving." Rather, they add it into their piracy cost projections and say "look at what piracy is costing us". Then they give those numbers to Congress and ask for stricter laws, harsher punishments, and more protection.Request a Linux Shockwave player here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/