AACS is irrelevant? I think not. Maybe you and I can go buy some grey-market tool from Antigua that will let us back up our BR-Ds and HD-DVDs, but they have a massive effect on the commercial market. Managed copy, as you mentioned, is completely in their control, and you could make some really nice "virtual changers" with managed copy.
The lack of a free managed copy ala HD-DVD is a real disappointment, though.
Which type of piracy do you think harms Hollywood?
1. The type AACS is effective against: people making backups of their own discs, copying them to HTPCs, transcoding them to put on low power laptops, etc.
2. The type AACS is utterly ineffective against: people ripping discs for the purpose of sticking them on BitTorrent for world wide release.
For its intended purpose, which presumably isn't "making it impossible to make copies in ways that do not harm Hollywood in the slightest", AACS is dead. It's an irrelevance, and this news is more evidence that Hollywood is beyond incompetent, insisting on punishing legal users with things that do nothing whatsoever to hurt illegitimate users (and, indeed, encouraging illegal uses to get around the pointless restrictions.)
But I'm sure EHD will continue to promote this awful format.
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AACS is irrelevant? I think not. Maybe you and I can go buy some grey-market tool from Antigua that will let us back up our BR-Ds and HD-DVDs, but they have a massive effect on the commercial market. Managed copy, as you mentioned, is completely in their control, and you could make some really nice "virtual changers" with managed copy.
The lack of a free managed copy ala HD-DVD is a real disappointment, though.
Which type of piracy do you think harms Hollywood?
1. The type AACS is effective against: people making backups of their own discs, copying them to HTPCs, transcoding them to put on low power laptops, etc.
2. The type AACS is utterly ineffective against: people ripping discs for the purpose of sticking them on BitTorrent for world wide release.
For its intended purpose, which presumably isn't "making it impossible to make copies in ways that do not harm Hollywood in the slightest", AACS is dead. It's an irrelevance, and this news is more evidence that Hollywood is beyond incompetent, insisting on punishing legal users with things that do nothing whatsoever to hurt illegitimate users (and, indeed, encouraging illegal uses to get around the pointless restrictions.)
But I'm sure EHD will continue to promote this awful format.