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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.'"
If you wanted me to be impressed that you have dual 21" LCD's then you should have left out the word "Dell". I'm neither impressed by your plebian level of consumerism, nor your faux-wit. However, when things are cracked before their even released then that tells you that your company doesn't even believe in itself.
Prohibition was a few third parties pushing their morality in between someone making a product for sale and someone wanting to buy that product. What's happening with the RIAA/MPAA is more like someone is making booze that people want but they don't like paying for the bottle, so they're stealing drinks right off the keg.