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DRM licensing group plan to plug analog hole

The AACS Licensing Authority seems to think that you don't have enough DRM in your living room and seeks to eliminate analog decoders by 2014. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Digital-rights Management, AACS Licensing Authority, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Latest AACS Processing Key released

The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.This latest key can be used to decrypt all newly released (and future releases, for a while at least) HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.  This...

Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Thoughts

Blog posts 2007-05-31

AACS vs. The bloggers

The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...

Tags: AACS Licensing Authority, AACSLA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, British Broadcasting Corp., disc, DRM, In the news, Legal, Thoughts

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Why the AACSLA are desperate to force the "forbidden numbers" genie back into the bottle

Ive had a number of questions from Hardware 2.0 readers concerning the AACSLA AACS Licensing Authority and why theyre now trying to erase the HD-DVD processing key forbidden numbers" from the Internet. What a slap in the face for the AACS is must have been when the lowly hackers,...

Tags: Thoughts, Legal, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray

Blog posts 2007-05-02

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog

This is just so wrong on so many levels. The AACS licensing authority sends a legal threat to Cory Doctorow (blogger, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing) over a blog relating to a USC undergraduate class that hes been involved in teaching:I just censored Teque5s post about the AACS processing...

Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Legal, Links

Blog posts 2007-05-01

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Latest AACS Processing Key released

Latest AACS Processing Key releasedThe hackers have the upper hand[i]"The battle between the hackers and the AACS LA could go on for years or it could be over in months"[/i]It costs the AACS a lot of money and even more in credibility every time this happens. It merely costs the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Hacking, Digital media, DVD, Consumer electronics, SECURITY, digital-rights management, BD-ROM Mark, BluRay, hacker, device manufacturer, HD-DVD, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

New AACS Processing Key released

The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.

Tags: Mice, mouse, hacker, game, Web

Image galleries 2007-05-31

AACS broken - before it's patched!

AACS, the copy-protection scheme used on HD DVD discs has been broken again.  But what's different this time is that it's been broken six days before the new, updated version is released.It's SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, which are behind this new crack.  The latest beta version of AnyDVD HD, version...

Tags: DRM, Blu-ray, HD-DVD

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Digg and cracking HD-DVD: Reimerdes comes to social news

Techmeme is all a-flutter, and my ZDNet colleagues have been right on top of the Digg/HD-DVD crack story. Heres my quick take on things, as I run off to OnHollywood where Kevin Rose spoke this morning:Nothing says Digg has to respond to a mere demand letter under any circumstances....

Tags: Voice, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-05-02

The Digg HD-DVD processing key debacle

Who would have thought that one 16 digit hexadecimal string could cause so much upset. Im talking about the HD-DVD processing string. But its all a fuss over nothing. Digg or no Digg, the information is out there in the public domain and theres nothing anyone can...

Tags: In the news, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray

Blog posts 2007-05-02

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blogAACS is OWNEDAACS is OWNED or will be very soon. DRM is dying even before the format battle between BluRay and HD-DVD has begun. Hollywood has to start treating consumers with respect, not like an enemy.Viral campaign anybody?I think the better answer is...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, AACS, Doom9, digital-rights management, piracy, Cory Doctorow

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

News to know: Mix07; Google responds to Viacom; Credit card passwords

Notable headlines: Google denies Viacom copyright charges. Full response PDF. Donna Bogatin: Google accuses Viacom of Unclean Hands: Demands day in court.Ryan Naraine: Verisign putting disposable passwords on credit cards.Supreme Court sides with Microsoft in patent spat.Ed Bott: How to get sued by Microsoft.George Ou: 2.5 *terabyte* hot-swap storage...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-01

HD-DVD copy protection in tatters

HD-DVD copy protection in tattersTrue... This could open up HD-DVD to Linux users.Great..Now I will be able to watch legally purchased HD-DVD's on my Linux boxes. Legal or not.I'm in the U.S. and I use decss libs to watch my legally purchased DVD's. Thanks to media company corruption of our...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, digital-rights management, DVD, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2007-01-18