You don't need to crack the DRM to upload these to file-sharing sites. Pretty much all TV rips (and even Blu-ray rips) are already double-compressed, so it's not particularly important to get at the raw bitstream. That means that all you need is a "malicious" video card or something to intercept the video-out signal from your computer. (And no, HDCP does not solve anything. It's already broken and anyone willing to pay $150 for a Spartan 6 dev board with HDMI ports on it can remove it.)

Anyway, I'm pretty sure whoever made the decision to go ahead with this model knows that there's going to be piracy. You would have to be living under the world's largest rock to not consider that possibility.