Hay guise, HDCP will soon be a joke - master key out in the open.

[Akucaen]

Linking to the reddit thread first instead of the actual info just in case. (Although it's being mirrored very quickly online anyway.)

In short, the HDCP master key is out in the open. No more cat and mouse from rotating release keys. I wonder how long it'll take the MPAA to shit themselves and slap cease & desists all over the internet, heh. I'm very much not in the ripping scene (aside from downloading (and heavily appreciating the hard work of those that do)), but I imagine this will do for Blu-Ray ripping what the DVD code did for ripping DVDs - ridiculously easy to do without tons of hoops to jump through. (Or I could be wrong. Like I said, the ripping scene isn't my thing.)

While I haven't had any HDCP problems like the nightmares I have heard online, I'm looking forward to a full-digital HDCP stripper anyway. (If they exist already or not - last I saw they went to analogue outputs of varying types, but that was a year or so ago.)

[Killgannon]

your sig makes me not want to believe you...

but the same thing happened back in the 90s when DVDs were starting to become mainstream/cheaper. back then you had to have special software to play DVDs on your computer (DVD decoders!!) but after the key got leaked you had all sorts of software to rip DVDs with, and now you can easily get free dvd playing software (hi2u vlc) and pop a disk in and go... its no suprise that bluray/hdcp is going the same way... they cannot make media that wont be cracked if enough people want to crack it... ive seen it said here before, and ill say it again, people are ready for the switch to full digital/internet purchasing and viewing... the mega corps however, are not, and want to do EVERYTHING they can to prevent it (see HDCP, bandwidth caps, RIAA, MPAA, broadband not being a right yet, etc)