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Month: January 2007

  • AACS Decryption Code Released

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    [Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] Decryption software for AACS, the scheme used to encrypt content on both next-gen DVD systems (HD-DVD and Blu-ray), was released recently by an anonymous programmer called Muslix. His software, called BackupHDDVD, is now available online. As shipped, it can decrypt HD-DVDs (according to its…

  • 2007 Predictions

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    This year, Alex Halderman, Scott Karlin and I put our heads together to come up with a single list of predictions. Each prediction is supported by at least two of us, except the predictions that turn out to be wrong, which must have slipped in by mistake. Our predictions for 2007: (1) DRM technology will…

  • 2006 Predictions Scorecard

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    As usual, we’ll start the new year by reviewing the predictions we made for the previous year. After our surprisingly accurate 2005 predictions, we decided to take more risks having more 2006 predictions, and making them more specific. The results, as we’ll see, were … predictable. Here now, our 2006 predictions, in italics, with hindsight…