MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by tptacek on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @11:23AM (#368361)

Movie crackers won't necessarily be doing everything in software for long; several major software media components --- like iTunes, Windows Media Player and Windows protected media pathways --- remain effectively unbroken. DRM is steadily improving, to the point where the "analog gap" is becoming more important.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by pshc on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:27PM (#368435)

Don't they remain unbroken only because there are currently paths of lesser resistance? And iTunes is already routinely hijacked to strip DRM from the iTunes Store.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by tptacek on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:35PM (#368444)

iTunes is not "routinely hijacked". The current incarnation of iTunes DRM hasn't had a published break since iTunes 6, several years ago.

The conventional wisdom maintains that all DRM schemes can be broken, and that's true, if you ignore cost. It is far from proven that all DRM schemes can be broken with costs proportional to the rewards.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Zev on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @04:42PM (#368765)

The current iTunes DRM for music has been broken. Google Requiem.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by tptacek on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @05:28PM (#368836)

Ah, I didn't see 1.8.1. Thanks. And you're right, Brahms broke iTunes 7.

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