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The next generation of technology won’t have a Hollywood ending

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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan05/0105ldvd.html
“Ripley identifies a technology called media key block as an important element in recovering from cracking. With this system, there are actually two keys—one is on the disc itself, but it doesn’t work until it is decoded by a second key installed in each player. Multiple versions of this second key can exist; indeed, it is possible that each player would have a unique key, or that groups of players would share keys. Either way, if one key is compromised in the way that CSS was compromised by Johansen and if that decoding method becomes public, new DVDs could include updated on-disc keys that would cause the compromised player-based key to fail. They would, nevertheless, still work with other, uncompromised player-based keys.”
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“GartnerG2’s McGuire says he appreciates the industry’s need to address cracking, but he also sees the cycle of crack/fix/crack as an endless loop. The motivation to crack high-value content like movies isn’t going to go away, he notes, so the overall economic benefit to the industry is not obvious.”
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“If they can’t, individual consumers will find ways to transfer their content anyway, Wallach says. “It is not a matter of if—it is a matter of when. As long as I have the technology in my living room to watch it for myself, I can modify the system to extract the video. They can make it hard, but they can’t make it impossible.

“They are living in a fantasy world,” he concludes.

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q:What about the consumers who own hardware that just happens to use a compermised key? I guess they are SOL.

My suggestion, as a consumer, don’t buy into this crap.