HDDVD Cracked?
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.
Hrmm … there’s a bit more info here –> http://fanpotai.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/hd-dvd-encryption-has-been-hacked/
It almost reads like what is currently found in the HD-DVD, isn’t what’s going to be there in “final release”. If that’s the case, then the current “crack” might only be for the current “beta” format.
Even so, I totally agree. Copy protecting anything that is essentially a string of ’1s’ and ’0s’ does seem like a pointless venture. It is the same with Music … as long as it can be read, it can be copied.