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Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack
mikesd81 writes "Intel is apparently threatening to use the DMCA against anyone using the HDCP crack under the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. 'There are laws to protect both the intellectual property involved as well as the content that is created and owned by the content providers,' said Tom Waldrop, a spokesman for the company, which developed HDCP. 'Should a circumvention device be created using this information, we and others would avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies.'"
Who wrote the headline? Shouldn't it be "Intel Threatens HDCP Crack Using DMCA"?
Unlikely, at least in Europe
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The Librarian of Congress has been empowered to create DMCA exemptions, so the Library of Congress would win.
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Just use an FPGA... problem solved.
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There may be no DMCA outside the US as the DMCA is an American law, but the WIPO Copyright Treaty upon which it is based has been enacted in many other countries. For example there is the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC
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BD encryption (AACS) was broken some time ago. AnyDVD HD still works even on the newest movies. But no, HDCP has nothing to do with Blu-ray directly.
sounds like a plan to me, burning record stores, MPAA/RIAA executives crusified or burned at the stake.. where do i sign up?
I think you've misidentified who the establishment was and who died. It's far more likely you'll be burned as a copywitch than the other way around.
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There are already chips out there that can do HDMI with HDCP (e.g. Analog Devices AD9393) if you supply a key.
So it should be a matter of using one of these plus a key derived from this intel master key.
I'll give you an example. I flew with my kids this summer and to help pass the time, I ripped a few of their favorite dvd's onto my iPod for them to watch on the plane. Being able to have the movie on my iPod has value, and thus the movie people expect to be paid for that.
Cory Doctorow talked to an MPAA representative who allegedly said "When you buy a movie to watch in your living room, we're only selling you the right to see it in your living room. Sending the same show upstairs to watch in your bedroom has value, and if it has value, we should be able to charge money for it."
So, if you asked Mr MPAA where the harm is, their answer could very well be "everywhere all the time"