X-bit labs - Hardware news - Copyright Protection Technology on Blu-Ray
and HD DVD Reportedly Cracked.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multime...228225123.html

YKhan wrote:
> X-bit labs - Hardware news - Copyright Protection Technology on Blu-Ray
> and HD DVD Reportedly Cracked.
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multime...228225123.html

I have been following the blogs, and some forums, such as avsforum, and
Ars this seems to be what people expected. I would agree that crack is
kind of the wrong word, a better word would be exposed. I also think
it's interesting that most people kind of ho hum at oh a patch is in
the works. Well OK, but what about the method, it almost seems that
they need to use a better method then storing keys in memory during
playback. I also think that if they patch or revoke the keys, and don't
change the method of using those keys then this could be an on going
problem.

I also agree that this is at most first step, you get rid of the disk,
but you still need the keys for playback. I do think this is a win for
fair use, I bet a lot of people will pay attention to this method, but
I would not want to be in Cyberlink shoes, as I bet a firestorm is
about to be unleashed. I can almost feel the weight of MS, and the MPAA
on them. I also bet that once the keys are analyised someone will
develop a keygen and your off to the bank. Yes I know the keys are
encrypted but I am sure some smart computer science guy will recognize
some pattern and suggest a compatible algorithm. Heck whats to stop
someone from plugging the new keys into the program to sniff the new
keys. Every time the keys are updated just sniff the new keys and
repeat, you might not even need the keygen.

Rthoreau

I see a end around .

I see M$ and Linux and tons of software tossed ..

If you think it will be just as hard to recreate all those
applications , using a new OpSys ,

you are wrong !! Applications were mostly
written in C and bloated to protect the authors income
from those apps ..
New OpSys will be so modular , everything will be integrated .
Your application will be mostly calls to lower levels in kernel .
This makes your "25mb" app look 200kb !!
Study it ...

The OpSys is totally integrated and GUI , No text .
You can create apps using a GUI , in minutes .

Since apps are integrated , programmers , will start , where
others left off ! They will be able to see all the applications
written so far ( apps are all in a run time dictionary ),
and simply steal what they find clever ,

This has allready been proven ..many times .

I program for free .

werty wrote:
> I see a end around .
>
> I see M$ and Linux and tons of software tossed ..
>
> If you think it will be just as hard to recreate all those
> applications , using a new OpSys ,
>
> you are wrong !! Applications were mostly
> written in C and bloated to protect the authors income
> from those apps ..
> New OpSys will be so modular , everything will be integrated .
> Your application will be mostly calls to lower levels in kernel .
> This makes your "25mb" app look 200kb !!
> Study it ...
>
> The OpSys is totally integrated and GUI , No text .
> You can create apps using a GUI , in minutes .
>
> Since apps are integrated , programmers , will start , where
> others left off ! They will be able to see all the applications
> written so far ( apps are all in a run time dictionary ),
> and simply steal what they find clever ,
>
> This has allready been proven ..many times .
>
> I program for free .

What a confusing post! we are talking about AACS and the use of
encryption keys found in memory to playback HD-DVD content. As far as I
know no official HD-DVD drive, or burner has been released for Windows.
As far as I can tell Linux only supports the burning of Blu-Ray with
growisofs, but Blu-Ray playback is still a ways away.

All this talk about modules of program code, seems that my desktop is
running a bunch of modules as is it's called X windows, a windows
manager, and a nice file manager called Rox. If that doesn't fit the
bill I can always open up a terminal and use a small module from the
command line. If I really need some new stuff I can always uses code
search with Google to find some Open Source code that I can use in my
modules. Then I can always pipe the results to another module to make
it more useful. I can also use regular expressions for even more power.
So how many gui's allow you to use regular expression, or pipe output
to another program?

Regardless some of us would like a way to view HD content on our
computers be it with windows or Gnu/Linux or the BSD's.

Gnu_Raiz