When HDCP first was announced Ed Felten (Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University) described a workable attack vector (w

When HDCP first was announced Ed Felten (Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University) described a workable attack vector (which was shortly confirmed) and labeled it so weak that most plausible explanation of its existence as: "only as a hook on which to hang lawsuits" https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/hdcp-why-so-weak https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/hdcp-why-so-weak