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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!"
Because it's always good to make it easier to break the law and steal movies.
What other for profit industries can we attack? Maybe someone could come up with a universal electronic key so you can drive any car you want.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
VHS movies took a long time to copy, the blank tapes were fairly expensive and you had to pay to rent or know someone with a movie collection. not like BT where it's like the Quest TV ad from 10 years ago. "we have every movie ever made in every language"
That's nice and all; I'm more interested in how you bypassed the lameness filter with that post.
Indeed. The only use i can see for this "break-trough" is enabling your old tvs to make use of HD content, both early digital devices and of course analog ones (as this opens for more and cheaper? HDfury-like products). Thinking of it this way.. exactly what were they prohibiting? Pirated HD seems unaffected...(?) Or had they teamed up with tv-makers to help them make shitloads of tvs obsolete perhaps? I bet they were scared of all that analog HD out there because it's too damn easy to copy and distribute... oh wait! :O
What the hell are you running? A Commodore 64? I can watch high definition iPlayer content on Linux without any hackery.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I would say the percentage of people who pirates that would have otherwise paid for it would be pretty damn close to zero.
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Pirates, such as you, should be fucking shot.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.