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Frant
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 Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 02:31 Post subject: Potential HDCP key is out in the open |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1733007/potential-hdcp-key
| Quote: | IT SEEMS that the movie industry has once again been hit with bad news as a hacker has published what he claims is the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) key.
The HDCP key is used by just about every major video format to protect the transmission from source to sink. The data is encrypted using the key at source, typically a set-top box, DVD player or even computer and is then decrypted at the sink, the display. The protection, or rather digital restrictions management (DRM) is aimed to stop people from making copies of content such as television shows or Blu-ray movies.
At this point it is not clear whether or not this key is actually the one that could render HDCP worthless. The hacker did not disclose how the key was obtained or whether it was a scene effort. Don't expect a twitch from Digital Content Protection, the subsidiary of Intel that owns and licenses out the technology. After all, if its golden goose has just been slain, it's hardly likely to make too much noise about it.
Innovative hackers have managed to get around HDCP to produce copies of content in the past, with software freely available that rips Blu-ray discs for some time. With the HDCP key out in the open, it will mean the MPAA will have little to no chance of stopping raw, uncompressed content from appearing on Bitorrent or Usenet, not that it was having much luck with that in the first place.
Although the death of HDCP is far from confirmed at this stage, it is clear that, like almost every other DRM system devised by greedy corporations, it is on its way out. Don't expect many tears from the media content cartels' long suffering customers. µ
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 04:14 Post subject: |
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whats this mean for the scene?
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 04:33 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 04:34 Post subject: |
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This is not that exciting really. This is only useful for capturing uncompressed data between the player and monitor, but to what purpose? Bluray security is currently laughable, so ripping the original contents is as easy as scratching your head. HD broadcast streams are also very easy to capture with the right equipment, and you end up with the original MPEG2/MPEG4 stream, so again this is useless.
If you ask me, it's more of an "Hey fuck you, I did this to stick the final nail in the coffin" type of achievement, rather than something that is really useful for us arr mateys. 
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Sep 2010 08:05 Post subject: |
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well, they still had the possibility to fix the system for a new revision, but now they'd have to redo everything, which would be impossible - or atleast a big enough dick-move to have the entire world go 'to hell with this shit'
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