Hackers 1, DRM 0
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:22 pmAACS took years to develop, and it has been broken in weeks. The developers spent billions, the hackers spent pennies.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:22 pmPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:16 pmPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:24 pmI apologize if this seems inappropriate to anyone, but...
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:01 pm
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:27 amI do believe they've been
(That's still one of the best things I ever made.)
(That's still one of the best things I ever made.)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:51 amSaw this coming a mile away.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:31 pmReally, after the deCSS stuff, this comes as no surprise indeed.
This, however, does not detract from its awesomeness on principle.
edit: I just felt a need to marvel a moment about deCSS. The industry was so happy about the CSS coding that protects DVDs from access, until someone created a crack that was some 15 lines long.
Fifteen lines. People were putting the entirety of deCSS code on shirts. And then they found a way to crack it in seven lines! People were memorizing it for shits and grins so they could put questionable copyright material on paper with a pencil in under five minutes. Hilarious.
This, however, does not detract from its awesomeness on principle.
edit: I just felt a need to marvel a moment about deCSS. The industry was so happy about the CSS coding that protects DVDs from access, until someone created a crack that was some 15 lines long.
Fifteen lines. People were putting the entirety of deCSS code on shirts. And then they found a way to crack it in seven lines! People were memorizing it for shits and grins so they could put questionable copyright material on paper with a pencil in under five minutes. Hilarious.