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HD-DVD Group Reacts to Leak

by Terrence O'Brien on May 4, 2007 at 10:52 AM

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You may remember our story about Digg users getting all in a tizzy and posting -- a few thousand times -- the key to crack HD-DVD copy protection. Well now the AACS, who provide the copy protection for HD-DVDs, has reacted by saying "a line has been crossed." AACS is prepping "legal and technical" steps to prevent people from circumventing the copy protection on HD-DVD discs.

It is also worth noting that the key leaked on hundreds of thousands of websites a few days ago has been revoked. That means that while some HD-DVDs have had their copy protection compromised already, the key will no longer be valid for breaking the protection on other discs.

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Tags: digg, drm, hd-dvd

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