Was a mistake made in the design of AACS?

[Steve Schear]

At 03:52 PM 5/2/2007, Ian G wrote:
>Hal Finney wrote:
>>Perry Metzger writes:
>>Once the release window has passed,
>>the attacker will use the compromise aggressively and the authority
>>will then blacklist the compromised player, which essentially starts
>>the game over. The studio collects revenue during the release window,
>>and sometimes beyond the release window when the attacker gets unlucky
>>and takes a long time to find another compromise."
>
>This seems to assume that when a crack is announced, all revenue 
>stops.  This would appear to be false.  When cracks are announced in such 
>systems, normally revenues aren't strongly effected.  C.f. DVDs.

Agreed.  But there is an incremental effect.  In the same way many people 
now copy DVDs they have rented many will gain access to HD content made 
available by those more technically sophisticated.  There a number of Bit 
Torrent trackers which focus on HD content.  All current released 
HD-DVD/BluRay movies are available for download. For those with 
higher-performance PCs for playback, broadband connections and who know how 
to burn a single- or dual layer DVD, the content is there for the talking.

A new generation of HD media players (initially from offshore consumer 
electronics and networking companies, for example, Cisco/LinkSys) are 
poised to enter the market.  These appliances will allow playback of all 
the common HD encoded media, including those ripped from the commercial HD 
discs.  This will place the content from pirates and P2P community in the 
hands of the less sophisticated Home Theater consumer.

Steve 

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