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 bestes on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @02:17PM (#368577)

Is it really this easy? Has anyone done it? Are these for sale anywhere?

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by wmf on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @02:48PM (#368620)

Nobody has done it because that's not the weakest link in the chain. It's easier to just decrypt the file in software.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by asciilifeform on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @04:51PM (#368780)

The purpose of doing this would be to create a proof-of-concept, a piece of "hacktivism" if you will: showing that the analog hole is forever un-pluggable. In this case, "analog hole" would be a misnomer - a fully decrypted digital signal must exist in order to drive the LCD glass.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by wmf on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @05:26PM (#368835)

I suspect that would just motivate the MPAA to bog us down with more DRM.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by stcredzero on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @09:27AM (#369476)

Actually, they could just take legal action through the DMCA.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by asciilifeform on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @12:33PM (#369664)

Post the schematics anonymously. Host in a neutral country. It's been done.

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