Interesting. And, in fact, the genie will NEVER AGAIN fit back into the bottle.
This is like trying to crush a handful of Jello. The tighter they squeeze, the further it squirts.
You said — “Pure geek news.”
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Well, except for the fact that the older DVDs could be easily and regularly cracked, and it was thought that the newer ones were going to close that hole. But now, we see that the newer ones are going to be cracked, too...
Note to Mod...the "Number" appears nowhere on the linked page, relax and laugh...
The format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray is not even settled, but the encryption scheme is already busted.
There’s an article on Slashdot about how pages with the processing key are mysteriously disappearing. Some of the creative responses to the article are quite amusing.
As a side note, has anyone else found Slashdot almost unreadable anymore? It’s supposed to be “News for Nerds”, but it seems like you can’t have an article of any kind without foaming-at-the-mouth leftists turning it into a forum for pushing a Socialist agenda. Is anyone else as sick of the childishness as I am?
BUMP
People like to make a copy of their DVDs. DVDs are defective on arrival. Many skip without even a smudge, and the smallest scratch ruins them. The DVD makers have taken away our ability to make a backup of their defective product, so the market provided one.