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They were cracked several times, but HDCP has a revocation/rotation mechanism so it doesn't really change anything.
by gruez 2y ago
They were cracked several times, but HDCP has a revocation/rotation mechanism so it doesn't really change anything.
- ndiddy 2y agoIn 2010, an HDCP master key was leaked, allowing anyone to generate an infinite number of valid new HDCP devices. This has made HDCP useless for stopping piracy for the past 15 years. All it's done since then is add another point of failure between people's electronics and their displays.
- gruez 2y agoAccording to wikipedia, they released a non-backwards compatible update in 2013, which presumably fixes this.
- xnzakg 2y agoWonder how many people lost the ability to play ~~their content~~ the content they were licensing when they released that update, and had to buy new hardware because it was no longer supported.