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Skriven 2007-05-17 18:28:36 av mike (1:379/45)
Ärende: Latest AACS revision defeated a week before release
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From: mike <mike@barkto.com>

The challenge was issued and taken up.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-defeated-a-w
eek-before-release.html

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Despite the best efforts of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing
Administration (AACS LA), content pirates remain one step ahead. A new volume
key used by high-def films scheduled for release next week has already been
cracked. The previous AACS volume key was invalidated by AACS LA after it was
exposed and broadly disseminated earlier this month. The latest beta release of
SlySoft's AnyDVD HD program can apparently be used to rip HD DVD discs that use
AACS version 3. Although these won't hit store shelves until the May 22,
pirates have already successfully tested SlySoft's program with early release
previews of the Matrix trilogy.

AACS LA's attempts to stifle dissemination of AACS keys and prevent hackers
from compromising new keys are obviously meeting with extremely limited
success. The hacker collective continues to adapt to AACS revisions and is
demonstrating a capacity to assimilate new volume keys at a rate which truly
reveals the futility of resistance. If keys can be compromised before HD DVDs
bearing those keys are even released into the wild, one has to question the
viability of the entire key revocation model.

After the last AACS key spread far and wide across the breadth of the Internet,
AACS LA chairman Michael Ayers stated that the organization planned to continue
clamping down on key dissemination, despite the fact that attempts to do so
only encouraged further dissemination. In a monument to comedic irony, the AACS
LA has elected to put out the fire by pouring on more gasoline.

AACS clearly has yet to stop those determined to break the DRM scheme from
copying movies, but its key revocation model does create additional burdens for
device makers, software developers, and end users. As the futility of trying to
prevent copying continues to become more apparent and the costs of maintaining
DRM schemes escalate, content providers will be faced with a difficult choice
of whether to make their content more or less accessible to consumers.

We are already seeing the music industry beginning to abandon DRM, but it
doesn't look like the movie industry is ready to take the same logical step.
Instead, the MPAA wants to have the best of both worlds by making DRM
interoperable and designing it in a manner that, according to MPAA head Dan
Glickman, will permit legal DVD ripping "in a protected way." Although the
MPAA's plans for DRM reform could reduce the incentives for hacking AACS, the
war between hackers and DRM purveyors will continue for the foreseeable future.
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