Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by Natsu on Saturday November 06, 2010 @02:38AM (#1876345)

> These arguments make sense if you believe that "DRM" (software protection) has lost the technological war. But it hasn't! You just don't see the high-end stuff deployed in places where hackers care about it --- with the possible exception of the hypervisor-secured game consoles.

Where is it, then? And if it's where I think it is, don't most such places keep tight control of their hardware? (As opposed to letting random consumers buy and own it.)

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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2010 @12:37PM (#1877211)

How about DTV cards, or BD+ Blu-Ray disks?

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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by Natsu on Saturday November 06, 2010 @04:13PM (#1877663)

Fair enough, but I wouldn't consider any of those to be "won" as if nobody's ever going to hack them.

BD+ in particular, I thought some commercial program was already able to emulate. And I haven't heard of any movies where there are no pirated versions available, but I don't watch them at all, so I might be out of the loop.

And mere Blu-Ray (for those disks without BD+), is pretty well cracked at this point if one is to believe the hexadecimal numbers going around the internet.

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