HDCP being broken means nothing for ripping Blu-rays. There you'd want the original compressed stream stored on the disk; if you grabbed from the HDMI stream yo

HDCP being broken means nothing for ripping Blu-rays. There you'd want the original compressed stream stored on the disk; if you grabbed from the HDMI stream you'd have to re-encode it and it'd be a lossy rip. What it does impact is the possibility for hardware devices with unlicensed HDMI inputs. This is primarily useful for people with early HD TVs that didn't support HDCP (or didn't have HDMI/DVI at all), or an owner of an HD projector (many of which have no or bad HDCP implementations.) It would also theoretically be useful for creating a custom DAC or video processor. Anyway, with Intel threatening to sue, this means only the Chinese will create HDCP strippers. But that's all that's needed for any usage.