There was a line by an actor (who I can’t recall) in a movie (which I can’t remember) who said (something like): “The criminal mind is far superior to the ordinary.” And if you believe hackers are criminals then this article from Wired proves it.
The guys who invented the copy protection for Blu Ray and HD DVD must be pissed now the genie is out of the bottle. Thing is, at the end of the day you wind up with a 9GB data file. That’s going to take about a week to download. And the crack itself requires some pretty serious teck skills to do. But it won’t be long before some 16 yo kid build a cross platform app to get teh job done. It’ll probably be free, too.
Link: Gadget Lab – Wired Blogs.