Aaron_Brez
Supporting Actor
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- Apr 22, 2000
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Actually, Hollywood acts as the prosecuting attorney, the corporations who own the keys that will be revoked act as the defense attorney, and the AACS-LA body or the DTCP body act as the judge, jury, and executioner-- and if the "defendants" don't like the result, they can appeal to a real live court of law to settle the dispute. Then and only then will keys be revoked through player updates.
(This is all in the HDCP licensing agreement, and though AACS licensing information has not been made public, it's written by essentially the same bunch of folks. Hardware and software people don't want keys revoked-- because who has to pay for it? Them!-- and they're going to make it as hard as possible for Hollywood to do it.)
As always, I must add the caveat that BD+ is so poorly defined that we don't know if it follows the same sorts of rules as HDCP/AACS. Likely the judge, jury, and executioner for BD+ is just the BDA. But the same idea applies: Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, and Pioneer don't want to deal with customers flooding their service lines, mass returns, crummy press, and even lawsuits, and they will fight key revocation if it's going to disable players.
The only thing you have left is if you object to the disabling of hacked players. Well, sorry. I respect your right to hack a device you own, and wish the DMCA were revoked and you could tweak to your heart's content. But I can't and won't agree that when you've violated the warrantee by modding something the company that sold it to you is somehow still liable for its proper operation.