arstechnica.com— Last night, the AACS LA's attempts to keep an HD DVD crack under wraps backfired in a spectacular fashion. Pandora's Box is now wide open and there's no going back now.
May 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
They don't have to revoke the key. They can just stop using it. The whole use of the term "key" is flawed. Key implies only one thing will fit. There are hundreds of valid processing keys, if not more. Arnezami even said in the future each disk could have it's own processing key, meaning just like the Volume ID, it would be unique to each disk.Ignoring the fact that you are clearly getting device keys and processing keys mixed up, I'll humor you. if they did want to do a revocation, they could do it to specific people's players based on the key leaked. If you deauthenticate a hacker's drive every time he posts a key on the internet, he will have to buy a lot of $600-900 drives to make enough generations of HD-DVDs vulnerable.Oh, and the HD-DVD key we've been spreading IS the Blu-ray key, at least until they implement the other two forms of copy protection in the Blu-ray spec.
I thought the exact same thing. This is more proof that Blu Ray is dead. When HD DVD destroys blu ray. we will look back on this very day, and understand.
I disagree. I think the cease and decist should go to the pages that digg links to...not digg itself.As for posting the key in comments, well, I don't think it happened in the original thread. it was the deleting that started everybody off
dsstormMay 3, 2007
I believe your forgetting a very important point. namely... piracy.
tropican8May 3, 2007
They don't have to revoke the key. They can just stop using it. The whole use of the term "key" is flawed. Key implies only one thing will fit. There are hundreds of valid processing keys, if not more. Arnezami even said in the future each disk could have it's own processing key, meaning just like the Volume ID, it would be unique to each disk.Ignoring the fact that you are clearly getting device keys and processing keys mixed up, I'll humor you. if they did want to do a revocation, they could do it to specific people's players based on the key leaked. If you deauthenticate a hacker's drive every time he posts a key on the internet, he will have to buy a lot of $600-900 drives to make enough generations of HD-DVDs vulnerable.Oh, and the HD-DVD key we've been spreading IS the Blu-ray key, at least until they implement the other two forms of copy protection in the Blu-ray spec.
shadowhawk22May 3, 2007
I thought the exact same thing. This is more proof that Blu Ray is dead. When HD DVD destroys blu ray. we will look back on this very day, and understand.
philluminatiMay 3, 2007
I disagree. I think the cease and decist should go to the pages that digg links to...not digg itself.As for posting the key in comments, well, I don't think it happened in the original thread. it was the deleting that started everybody off
mrviklundMay 3, 2007
Mhum.
Closed AccountMay 3, 2007
The information is out now and no one can take it back. They try to scrap it, but its a free world and now that hex code is on every bit of world wide web.<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_after_effects_of_HD_DVD_Hex_Code_Controversy_Its_everywhere_now">http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_after_effects_of_HD_DVD_Hex_Code_Controversy_Its_everywhere_now</a>Cheers to all diggers.
woznzMay 6, 2007
Digg is not in the clear yet. Depends if the AACS LA decide to use the full force of the DCMA on Digg.