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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by nailer on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @08:23AM (#368198)
Sure, but the pirated HD version had to remove the DRM in the first place (eg, some Blu Ray titles require HDCP, which you have to remove to rip it).
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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by m_eiman on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @08:27AM (#368201)
Yup. But figuring out how to do it will probably take longer than the download!
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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by nailer on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @09:34AM (#368244)
Aye, but someone's figured it out, hence making the download possible.

It's might seem like a chicken and egg discussion, but it isn't: the crack needs to come first. But once one person cracks it, the content is available for everyone else.

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