Latest AACS key cracked a week before release

[Sidney Markowitz]

Ars Technica reports that a new volume key which has been issued to
replace the one that was cracked earlier this month and which is being
used in DVDs to be released for sale next week has been cracked using a
beta version of SlySoft's AnyDVD HD program and early release previews
of The Matrix trilogy.

Here's the article

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-defeated-a-week-before-release.html

This is the same link in preview tinyurl form:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2zl4gv


I know that there is nothing technologically new or interesting about
this crack, but it does add a certain emphasis to the arguments for the
futility of DRM, seeing systems cracked before they are released. What
does it do to Ed Felten's model when C drops below 0? (reference Hal
Finney's post to this list about two weeks ago
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/10065)

 -- Sidney Markowitz
    http://www.sidney.com

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