AACS is the copy protection scheme used by Hollywood to prevent people from copying DVDs. It's been a
total failure, with the "secret" AACS keys being cracked as soon as they appear. Once the key is out, it gets officially "revoked" which means that if you buy a
new DVD and try to use it in an
older DVD player, it
won't play. Talk about pissing off your users...!
No one is going to keep buying a new DVD player every few weeks to try and keep up with this madness, but Hollywood just doesn't care about you, they care about profits.
But wait, there's more....
Not only is it
trivial to crack the AACS keys after they come out, but [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://www.slysoft.com/en/"]SlySoft[/a], an Antigua-based company that sells software to defeat various forms of copy protection, has actually gone one better, releasing a cracked key
before the new key was even put into use.
That's right, Slysoft updated its AnyDVD product to allow it to copy the new
unreleased AACS discs.
Apparently, SlySoft had extracted a key from a different player and had kept the attack a secret. They waited until all the other compromised keys were blacklisted before switching to the new one. (LOL!!)
Will Hollywood
never learn? You can't "protect" content from the very people who are supposed to use it, and there is no way in HELL that the motion picture industry can outpace the people cracking this stuff. No way in the world.
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