The neatest part about the HDCP hack is that all the overlay stuff is done on-the-fly in the FPGA, without any easy way to actually dump out the unencrypted con

The neatest part about the HDCP hack is that all the overlay stuff is done on-the-fly in the FPGA, without any easy way to actually dump out the unencrypted content. That makes it much harder to use for actual DRM stripping, and thus easier to argue that it doesn't qualify as a DMCA circumvention tool.