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Microsoft DRM Hack Could Allow Movie Downloads From Popular Streaming Services (www.securityweek.com)

submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago

“The new research embeds some potentially valuable IP / know-how, which we need to protect too,” Gowdiak said. “Finally, disclosure of our know-how / toolset to Microsoft might jeopardize our future projects targeting the Windows OS platform.”

Amazing. He wants to protect hacking IP from Microsoft in order to continue hacking them. Suck it M$!

DRM is defective by design anyway. Once the master keys are out, either a new one is used and all devices with old key baked in are useless, or they have to suck it and be pwned.

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