engadget.com — In case DRM hasn't caused you enough pain already. Check it, you've got some required software updating to do now that Corel has introduced a patch to their cracked InterVideo WinDVD software. Best do it pronto too. According to Corel, "failure to apply the update will result in AACS-protected HD DVD and BD playback being disabled."
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tmalloyApr 6, 2007
Does anyone else see the humor in the fact that a WinDVD ad is situated directly next to the article?
thealliedhackerApr 6, 2007
Broken, unencrypted... practically the same thing.CSS was broken, and AACS isn't even much better really. They cannot win.
sadatoniApr 6, 2007
They want you to buy their movies, not necessarily watch them. And to hell with your fair use rights.
lukas88Apr 6, 2007
"Check it..."Thanks Ali G
diggduggjoeApr 7, 2007
The world will get crazier. That fact is Microsoft will have to do similar things with Vista in the future as parts of their DRM is cracked or video drivers with bugs that allow bypassing encryption are discovered. That one issue with Vista makes me give my clients the thumbs down regarding it. They are businesses which have more important things to do than update drivers that are recalled to preserve Microsoft's status with content providers. The only other option is for MS to update video drivers automatically which may or may not be a good thing. Some of my clients replace their PCs all at once, so a crappy driver could disable their entire office. DRM is just another attempt to force a system upon customers that they do not want or need. It is for the benefit of big corporations. If, your life gets messed up, they do not care. Their bottom lines are far more important than satisfying their clients. People should walk away from it, but the sheep keep lining up to get sheared.
happyscrappyApr 7, 2007
The volume key is per movie. It was the same on BluRay and HD-DVD movies for some reason.My understanding is that by hacking the 360 drive, you can get the volume key for any movie that plays on the 360 drive.It is unclear what the movie houses intend to do about this. An obvious answer would be to revoke the current 360 drive so that future titles cannot be compromised. This would require them firmware updating the 360 drive, and presumably securing the new FW somehow so that the new one doesn't get hacked too.Does this seem even possible? I'm not sure.
grumpyrainApr 7, 2007
> When will all the companies learn you can't stop pirates just give up.There has to be some irony in that comment coming from someone called metalica77. I laughed.@Miraq,The speed of light varies depending on the medium the light passes through. The 3 x 10^8 m/s that we learnt in physics is the speed of light through a vacuum. The speed of light through say water is much slower. I remember visiting a reactor for high school physics. We saw a holding tank for spent rods (just like a small swimming pool with a bunch of drums on the bottom). There was a blue glow around the tanks where the electrons were travelling faster than the speed of light in water. Was a pretty amazing sight.( <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation</a> )
zhulienApr 7, 2007
they are unprotected enough, all you need is a DVD player which doesn't honor macrovision. are there any HDDVD or BluRay players which don't yet? nope.