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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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.