God dammit! It really gets my goat when "journos" don't bother to find out the facts - or are too dim to understand them. AACS HAS NOT BEEN CRACKED, for pete's sake. Cracking the AACS algorithms and being able to create decryption keys mathematically is completely different from finding a decryption key in PC memory during playback. Once the player gets its AACS key revoked, this particular copy protection hole is plugged.
Thanks Colin. Care to expand a little? What happens after a player gets its AACS key revoked? I'm just ignorant on this particular aspect of the subject and would love to find out more...
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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God dammit! It really gets my goat when "journos" don't bother to find out the facts - or are too dim to understand them. AACS HAS NOT BEEN CRACKED, for pete's sake. Cracking the AACS algorithms and being able to create decryption keys mathematically is completely different from finding a decryption key in PC memory during playback. Once the player gets its AACS key revoked, this particular copy protection hole is plugged.
Thanks Colin. Care to expand a little? What happens after a player gets its AACS key revoked? I'm just ignorant on this particular aspect of the subject and would love to find out more...