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Slashdot and Digg links to the very good news that HD-DVD Encryption has been cracked, allowing one to play HD-DVDs in the same manner one plays regular CDs.
What’s been particular fun is reading the digg comments. One in particular has the general anti-authority flair of John Robb:
What is absolutely hilarious, is the who completely screwed up chain of junk this crap was forcing anyone to get who wanted to play these movies legitimately. HDCP video card. HDCP monitors etc. All for the super secure system that was hacked in weeks of being released. So now, as usual all of this garbage will only inconvenience the standard consumer while the Pirate/Torrent community can play the movie anywhere on any equipment.Pirate Nelson Says. HA, HA! Arrrrrrrrrrr!
Though perhaps more relevent for our purposes are conspiracy theories from FormulaOne:
You can thank the Blu-ray engineers for providing the solution to extract the unique volume keys. It took them some time, but they pulled it off in a very clandestine and indirect way. Gentleman, HD-DVD is officially on life support.
And Escamillo:
In other words, the doom guys were used as proxies in the format war, and were played. There actions will lead to HD-DVD’s demise, which would defeat their purpose of hacking the format in the first place.
Posted by Dan tdaxp on Jan 13, 2007 05:28 PM
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This is so funny. Even if the conspiracy theories are only fantasy, they will contribute to the pool of available strategies for competitive actors, in future. I.e., I suppose I’m saying that this conspiracy-mongering is really a type of creative innovation, for anyone listening/reading/following the conspiracy-mongering.
In similar fashion, John Robb is conducting a type of innovating guerrilla warfare, in line with his own theory of open-source warfare, to support that theory: even if it is mere fantasy now, GG could be a self-fulfilling prophecy (at least partially-fulfilling.)
If you blog it, they will emerge?
Heh, I like the idea of a 5GW Advocacy Theory. But I guess this is nothing new —- the famous line of “I read your book, Rommel,” etc.
(Not to be confused with the much more direct Global Guerrillas Advocacy Theory.)