OT: VISTA

[shinigami]

You are incorrect, sir. The player's key was not used.

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[Fyron]

Guess I missed that update to the story. Either way, the program still depends on you getting the actual encryption keys involved for each movie. It doesn't just strip off AACS arbitrarily like DeCSS did for DVD encryption.

[shinigami]

The programs don't strip the encryption per say, they work around the encryption in order to save an unencrypted movie to your drive. As for getting the keys, these programs are intended for making a legal back-up of a movie that you have bought, so you already have the key, they just yank it out of memory.

[Suicide Junkie]

As I understand it, they let the player use its personal key to decrypt the movie key.
Then they pick the movie key out of memory and use it to decrypt the movie.

Each player has a key... which all lead to the master movie key, which gives you the movie.
Player keys can be revoked, but if nobody knows which player key was compromised, the only remaining option is to revoke them all, give up, or continue to sue all your customers.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

DRM is just another way to punish the honest customer for the deeds of the pirate.

Rather like gun cotnrol.

[Randallw]

I don't think they have made rolls of gun cotton for decades