09-F9 news about how to crack the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs has created a massive controversy on social news sites. Share your opinions about the controversy, and...
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09-F9 news about how to crack the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption used to limit copying of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs has created a massive controversy on social news sites. Share your opinions about the controversy, and track news about the AACS, encryption codes, and other related topics.
In an interesting article entitled "Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey?" at "The Faculty Blog" from the University of Chicago, a law professor not intimately involved with the DMCA and Web 2.0 writes: As to law, as Digg's attorneys undoubtedly told it yesterday, the leading decision addressing the legitimacy of linking to decryption tools is Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2nd Cir. 2001). That case deals with the prior iteration of this situation—the ordinary DVD—and...
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This is a great summary of the legal implication of what's been going on around the AACS 09 f9 case: What is the AACS-LA's argument? In its takedown letters, the AACS-LA claims that hosting the key violates the DMCA's ban on trafficking in circumvention devices. The DMCA provides that: No person shall ... offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that that - (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose...
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Here is what Kevin Rose said about the cease and desist orders cocerning Digg posts with codes to break the AACS encryption. "But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we...
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Digg founder Kevin Rose finally conceded and gave users the go-ahead to post the secret enryption key-code that's been causing so many troubles. "You've made it clear," he wrote on a note posted to the site. "You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company." This controversy has raised legal issues concerning free speech and the use of social networks and web2.0 services. What can a user legally post on a blog, bookmarking service, or social network? How are the...
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In an attempt to capture some of the current AACS (Advanced Access Content System, copy-restriction technology for new-format DVDs) controversy, here is some background information. The whole controversy started when someone managed to figure out what the 16-digit hexadecimal key is that currently encrypts new-format DVDs. Although knowledge of this rather simple number doesn't in-itself decrypt DVDs (some software is needed too), it's enough that the AACS organization began sending take...
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AnyDVD HD to support "proactive renewal" of AACS 11 April 2008 5:15 by Matti "Siggy" Vahakainu The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator , LLC has once again started a so called "proactive ...
Latest News: RESPONSE TO REPORTS OF ATTACKS ON AACS TECHNOLOGY. April 16, 2007 - AACS LA Announces Security Updates (Updated URLs) In response to attacks against certain PC-based applications for ...
Accelerating the release of next-generation content. Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA) is developing the Advanced Access Content System, a specification for managing ...
The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a standard for content distribution and digital rights management, which will allow restricting access to and copying of the next generation of optical ...
MacWorld UK - By that point, Digg executives had spent hours in a fruitless battle to remove repeated posts to the community news website that contained a key needed to crack the AACS (Advanced Access
In an interesting article entitled "Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey?" at "The Faculty Blog" from the University of Chicago, a law professor not intimately involved with the DMCA and Web 2.0 writes: As to law, as Digg's attorneys undoubtedly told it yesterday, the leading decision addressing the legitimacy of linking to decryption tools is Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2nd Cir. 2001). That case deals with the prior iteration of this situation—the ordinary DVD—and...
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