December 28th, 2006

According to [engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/), the encryption scheme used on the relatively new HD-DVD format has already been cracked.

All the money that must be spent on new copy protection schemes just seems wasted to me. It takes someone a relatively small amount of time to find some way around it. Why don’t they spend the money on research as to WHY people copy media, instead of just throwing money at the bottomless pit that is ‘new copy protection schemes’.

As far as I’m concerned, It’s all bits (1′s and 0′s). No copy protection scheme is unbreakable.