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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"?
The Librarian of Congress has been empowered to create DMCA exemptions, so the Library of Congress would win.
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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.
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.