Originally Posted by djmattyb
Unlike today's technology, which allows movies to be played only in authorized DVD players, AACS would potentially allow people to store copies of a movie on home computers and watch it on other devices connected to a network--or even transfer it to a portable movie player.
So, hardrive or BlueRay storage of this format is already considered? At least "potentially". The system would be able to differentiate between "owned" copy, and ripped/downloaded copy?


Like CSS, the new AACS technology would be added to a disc as it is created and would require specific hardware or software to have the "key" to unlock the content on the disc. Individual keys could be retired by studios if they slip into the public domain, allowing the overall system to continue functioning, even if a key is broken or accidentally released, as was the case with CSS.
Individual keys retired? How? Firmware updates to the players? Connect the player to the internet? How will my purchased disc still play if the key has been retired?


IBM has been working on its own home networking security system, called extensible content protection, or xCP, which it says will contribute to the new AACS specifications. Intel, working through the "5C" consortium of Hitachi, Intel, Matsushita, Sony and Toshiba, has helped develop a technology called Digital Transmission Content Protection, designed to protect, compress and move video between different points in a home network.
Makes me think of the "secure computing" plan that Intel and Micro$oft are working on - where you get to buy a new computer that refuses to run any non-approved software, and you need an internet connection to verify the approval has not been revoked. All the computers internal signals are encrypted, and memory is checked for "unauthorized" programs.

All that, and the real pirates can make copies that pass for the real thing, using the original source material.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1275902,00.asp

Mike