A copy protection scheme used in virtually all consumer HD video devices, from Blu-ray players to game consoles, was broken this week when someone leaked an essential secret key online. The High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) protocol key
found its way onto the Internet on Monday, and HDCP vendor
Intel has since confirmed its authenticity.
It’s unlikely that this breach will have any immediate impact on either digital media sales or online piracy. However, the defeat of HDCP is yet another instance of supposedly unbreakable content protection schemes failing badly.
Still, people in the industry are holding onto the illusion that there will one day be a secure architecture for digital content, despite of plenty of evidence to the contrary. We’ve compiled a list of five of the most glorious DRM failures over the years:
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Re: Last one to post wins the internets
So that one group who is relentlessly and mercilessly obliterating that other group who had another group inside their group who did a thing like a while
megabyteme Today, 01:09 AM