Jon “DVD Jon” Johansen, who popularized the means to crack the CSS system protecting DVDs, has committed to launching a tool to crach the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) used in next-generation DVDs. In a blog posting earlier this month, Johansen announced that he had registered the Deaacs.com site, which cites a “winter 2006/2007″ release date for the software.
“AACS, like CSS, will be a success,” Johansen wrote. “Not at preventing piracy. That’s not the primary objective of any DRM system. Anyone who has read the CSS license agreement knows that the primary objective is to control the market for players. Don’t you just love when your DVD player tells you ‘This operation is prohibited’ when you try to skip the intro?”
Johansen wrote and released “DeCSS,” a tool for stripping the Content Scrambling System protections written into DVDs. In 2003, entertainment lobbyists tried to argue that Johansen, a Norwegian, had contributed to coopyright piracy by releasing the tool on the Internet. Johansen argued that stripping the copy protection was necessary to view movies using a Linux-based movie player.
Source: Lostcoders.net
it would be funny as hell if the next gens dont work on linux too lol
give him precedent lol
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I think it is safe to say they won't.
Got to give it to the guy, he has balls. To blatantly challenge the almighty entertainment industry, to do it consistently and to consistently win. That’s impressive.Johansen announced that he had registered the Deaacs.com site.
Yes the next-gen will be cracked, time alone has proven this, and time alone is all it takes. I hope DVD Jon is the guy to do it but every hacker and their grandmother is going to working at the crack if not for the publicity alone.
all i have to say is
Bravo DVD Jon
a true warrior in our scene
Who was the guy who got hired onto a corporation after decyphering or defeating some type of protection? I'm thinking this guy, but it doesn't seem like him.
17 USC § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the noncommercial use by a consumer for making digital musical or analog musical recordings.
It was him.Originally Posted by Lord_of_the_Dense
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OK then. So how is this blatant declaration of defeating the Advanced Access Content System an OK thing? Won't this possibly inciminate him once again?
17 USC § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the noncommercial use by a consumer for making digital musical or analog musical recordings.
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