Too bad it wasn’t Blue-Ray that got cracked..they
are much more insidious and anti fair-use than
HD-DVD.
Soon.....
Blu-Ray has also been cracked by the same group of hobbiests.
Matter of fact, the original forum conversation that lead to the coding of the program that lead to the crack has also been posted on FR, DU, fark, littlegreenfootballs, boing boing, wizbang, etc. Easily ten’s of millions of eyeballs have seen the hex codes and the cracking software.
It is available on 100’s of Chinese language websites, just go to Baidu.com and plug in that hex code.
There are entirely too many lawyers in the US. That the concept of judicial control of a hex code has been even contemplated as being ethical or legal, and any court has given them standing, is utterly ridiculous.
Like the generation who lived through Prohibition, the generations coming of age now will live life never trusting the color of law, when the law is so askew of the human condition there is no way to not be a scofflaw. (Or a felon, since distributing these hex codes can be considered a federal felony under DMCA.)