Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack
Found on Wired on Saturday, 18 September 2010
Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key - leaked on the internet - to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray.
The anonymous release this week of the HDCP master key means black market hardware makers, perhaps in China, can now create hardware capable of defeating the copy protection scheme.
"Someone has used mathematics and computers to be able to work back to what the master key is"
It had to happen sooner or later. Yet the industry does not learn that copy protection won't really work and information wants to be free.