Archive for June 1st, 2007

New AACS “fix” hacked in a day

“ArsTechnica has just published an update to the neverending story about copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and hacker efforts against it. From the article: ‘The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top. The hacker BtCB posted the new decryption key for AACS on the Freedom to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA) issued the key.’…” (Read full article here)

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Canadian movie camcording addressed with legislation

“During Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit to Ottawa yesterday, it was confirmed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be introducing a bill to make camcording in movie theaters illegal in Canada. However, people are skeptical that this will make any difference in the amount of pirated movies available. Doug Frith, president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was quoted as saying, ‘is really the first step — not only for the movie industry — where the government has shown it will seriously address the whole area of intellectual-property theft…’” (Read full article here)

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