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Re: [News] HD DVD Cracked (Again?), No Hope for DRM

On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:04:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> http://www.cafepress.com/nonlogic.100812817
> 
> These folks have would have the processing key printed on a shirt, just for
> spite. Everyone seems to be exchanging the decryption code in public today,
> so the revised method has probably been cirumvented as well. DRM is doomed,
> and it should never have existed in the first place.

You really don't understand this stuff, do you?  No, HD DVD has not been
cracked again, and it never was cracked.  One softwre vendor was careless
with their key and allowed it to be exposed.

The key on this t-shirt is already obsolete.  New pressings of HD DVD's
already exclude this key, so going forward new titles will not work.  The
code is irrelelvent, if you don't have a working decryption key.  That's
the point.

It's just like any formal encryption technology.  The algorithms are public
knowledge, but without the key, you're stuck without a lot of extra CPU
time on your hands.

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