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How gizmo maker's hack outflanked copyright trolls

• noonespecial 15y ago
  Couldn't be more impressed by Bunnie. It's always a jaw-dropping "no way" with this guy but this, I'd call this hack Woz level magic.
• maeon3 15y ago
  I always thought it funny that the spirit of copyright is to cultivate and encourage innovation, but instead it is being used to create fire-hoops to jump through to create innovation. When something that is designed to help actually causes harm, it is then that you discontinue the thing causing harm.
• joezydeco 15y ago
  So there's still a chance that Bunnie will get DMCA'ed on using the HDCP encoding key? I'm a little lost on what's possible and what isn't now that the keys are out there.
• StavrosK 15y ago
  It sounds like you can't do some nice things like alpha channel transparency on the video with this method. Not a big deal, but a shame that this sort of innovation is being stifled legally.