Posted on 09/15/2010 8:52:06 AM PDT by savedbygrace
Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play. Now, posts have been floating around on Twitter about a supposed "master key" which renders that protection unusable since it allows anyone to create their own source and sink keys.
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Ping worthy, Dave?
YaY!
Oh wait...I don’t have or watch TV.
Meh
Thank you.
I am surprised...or maybe not surprised, by the number of “Christians” from my own church who think nothing of stealing music, videos etc... through whatever means are available.
Is anyone surprised about this? What one geek can design, another geek can crack.
By definition, nothing digital can be truly encrypted forver, it is the nature of it. In the digital world there is no such thing as an unbreakable code given enough time.
Didn’t take you long to trash the christian faith, even on a thread totally unrelated, did it?
How’s that different from TIVO? One can record media for which on has paid one time, as with a cable subscription, and then watch it repeatedly forever. If I rent a movie, for which I pay, why can I not do the same as TIVO?
I think Drawsing was trashing theft, not the Christian faith.
That’s why I opened with “Ut, oh.”
I am not in favor of breaking the law, but breaking this one is stealing income from the pockets of not just the wealthy Hollyweirdos, but some folks with far lesser income levels.
And stealing is stealing. However, current copyright law does go way too far. That doesn’t excuse breaking it, but . . . .
I am sorry you misunderstood. I am certainly not trashing the Christian faith as I am one myself. Stealing is wrong and I am sorry some of those who profess Christianity have no qualms about rationalizing theft.
I believe there are legal warnings on rented DVDs that prohibit copying. One can always rationalize it by saying, “That is a dumb law. I know better.” I humbly submit, however, that it is still illegal...and the basic human motivation is still “I want free stuff!”
Interesting tagline ... harsh but correct.
“Oh wait...I don’t have or watch TV.”
I just got a great deal on a 50” Samsung 3D plasma TV. With my home theatre system I can watch the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Serenity, Blackhawk Down, Patriot, We Were Soldiers, etc in the comfort of my home. The picture and the sound are spectacular. Then there is the History Channel and the Discovery Channel and I can’t wait for the new episodes of Top Shot. TV is not the devil.
Bad laws provoke good people.
All true, but "recording" is different from "copying" and the old VHS legal standard still applies, doesn't it? How else is TIVO legal?
The copyright laws will change, or the industry will go bankrupt.
Western nations are looking at 10 years of stagnation, there will never be a demand for the media products at the current cost levels.
Until the media and hardware manufacturers can adjust to this reality, they will continue to buy politicians and purchase their monopoly in the legal system while holding the cultural traditions of our societies hostage to their oligarchic rentier class tactics...
The number of cable television subscribers declined YoY in June for the first time in the history of the country. This trend will continue indefinitely for the next decade.
HDCP was the last bulwark before the media companies demand a Communist China and Iranian style mandatory internet backbone censorship network installed by Cisco and Siemens.
To most people this isn't about stealing (a misnomer, you're really thinking of copyright infringement). It's about regaining Fair Use that has been taken from us through technology. I should be able to rip a Blu-ray into a file (otherwise legal format shifting) that I can take with me (legal place shifting) to play on any device I own.
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