The “Break it Down” Blog

This is gold… the AACS sat down and revised a fix because of the master-key leak that occurred. And before the revision that “fixes” the problem is released next week, it looks like it was already cracked again.

When you look at the pure frustration that copy protection brings to both consumers and distributors and then you see things like this it just makes me laugh. The key to not needing copy protection is to make the content cheap enough that buying it is minimal less painful then digging around the internet looking for a good copy of the movie ripped.

If I could pay $8 for an HD movie, and $4 for a DVD, I’d be buying movies left and right. But when an HD movie costs me $45 fucking dollars to buy… unless I’m going to start watching it every day for the next year, I cannot fathom how that is at all interesting to me.

I think the MPAA and RIAA have convinced themselves that what they do (fleece artists and customers) is their god-given right… and for being good consumers all these years we should pay dearly for that right… and all be scared of getting thrown in Guantanamo while we are at it.

Shitbags.