__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:48 \__
> Op Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:17:17 +0000, schreef Doug Mentohl:
>
>> A hacker .. has been hard at work for at least the past eight days .. with
>> the Eureka moment occurring on Sunday, when he was able to confirm the
>> validity of his method for identifying the processing key. Combining the
>> two allowed him to unlock the copy protection"
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/14/aacs_hack/
>
> Oh deary deary me ... all those countless man-years spent on developing an
> airtight DRM and copy protection scheme defeated in mere days by a single
> hacker, armed with nothing more than a hex editor. It's quite pathetic,
> really.
>
> Maybe now the media industry and Microsoft will finally grasp the idea
> that DRM and copy protection just don't work? Naah ... no doubt they'll
> come up with some new, "airtight" system. This time it'll work. With
> special TPM chips all over the place, even in people's heads, if need be.
> To be defeated within no time again of course, and again, and again ...
>
> They'll never learn.
They did not want to learn from history. They repeated it. If only they could
recall mil/billions of optical disks and just patch things...
Ask Sony. They are still ruining Windows PCs... a long time after the
blunder.
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