[theFIRMbss]

It all sounds insane.
I miss the Apple II days
of one board machines . . .

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The communication schema is the following: the OS COPP Driver (Certified Output Protection Protocol) verifies with the graphic card bios to check if it is legitimate or not. Once this verification is done, the card then goes to the monitor KSV, a unique 40 bit key, which will authorize (or not) the reading and displaying of the movie after comparison with a data base provided by the HDCP consortium.

For example, here are all the steps of HDCP certification when a Silicon Image chip is involved:

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[zeugma]

It's far to screwed up for its own good.

 I think I'll pass on getting any of this crap. Let's hope the marketplace kills it dead.
 

[antiRepublicrat]

a unique 40 bit key

That's it? This is so getting hacked. Unfortunately, they've already made the hacking of what you purchased illegal.