Latest AACS key cracked a week before release

Ars Technica reports that a new volume key which has been
issued to
replace the one that was cracked earlier this month and
which is being
used in DVDs to be released for sale next week has been
cracked using a
beta version of SlySoft's AnyDVD HD program and early
release previews
of The Matrix trilogy.

Here's the article

http://ars
technica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-def
eated-a-week-before-release.html

This is the same link in preview tinyurl form:

http://preview.tiny
url.com/2zl4gv


I know that there is nothing technologically new or
interesting about
this crack, but it does add a certain emphasis to the
arguments for the
futility of DRM, seeing systems cracked before they are
released. What
does it do to Ed Felten's model when C drops below 0?
(reference Hal
Finney's post to this list about two weeks ago
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gener
al/10065)

 -- Sidney Markowitz
    http://www.sidney.com

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