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HDCP Master Key Revealed
solafide writes "The HDCP Master Key has allegedly been revealed. If true, this information will allow anyone to create their own source or sink keys, essentially making HDCP useless for content protection permanently. No word yet on how it was obtained, but if true, this is a great day for content freedom around the world!"
I can't wait for THIS number to be turned into a song!
... so nobody can get hold of it.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
The HDCP Master key !! so now you can burn, Burn, BURN !!
I predict Sony will announce Blu-Ray2 tomorrow, and now you have to dump all your existing HD equipment and buy their newfangled crap with a different master key. All your existing investment in HD crap must be tossed in the trash.
Think of the boom to the economy if every American has to buy their movies ALL OVER AGAIN, for the 4th time, as well as replace their player, TV and the expensive cable between them.
Oh yeah, firmware update to PS3's that prevent playing Blu-Ray. Sony changes tagline for PS3 commercials to "It only does nothing".
Either that, or here comes Toshiba with HD-dvd-2... Div-X anyone?
This could signal the end of physical media. My prediction is that media companies will start selling only executable packages that contain player-code, the movie itself, and rootkit, and the player program will erase the movie after it's been watched, leaving the rootkit installed, so they can monitor if the player program is altered by the user, or the movie is watched again.
And then Orrin Hatch will allow Sony to blow up your computer if you tamper with their movie.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Inside sources say that the CEO had it written down on a post-it stuck to his monitor.
377. ???
378. Loss of profits.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
Especially when George Lucas sues you for making lightsaber noises.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
There's a very good one, actually. It's possible to install a program to enable you to read books written for another language region, but it takes several years and a lot of hard work.
Some people are working on automatic cracking tools, but they're not very good.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
> A DVD is a tangible good, no different than a book.
Yes it is. I should be able to dispose of that "tangible good" in any manner as I see fit as the owner of that good.
I choose shoving it up the RIAA's arse.
That gets tricky.. what with their heads getting in the way etc..
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Darwin wins, Youtube wins, I don't see a problem.
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