Quote from Cory Doctorow on the latest news regarding AACS (the technology that prevents HD (or Blu-Ray) DVDs from getting copied):
AACS took years to develop, and it has been broken in weeks. The developers spent billions, the hackers spent pennies.
There is no future in which bits will get harder to copy. Instead of spending billions on technologies that attack paying customers, the studios should be confronting that reality and figuring out how to make a living in a world where copying will get easier and easier. They're like blacksmiths meeting to figure out how to protect the horseshoe racket by sabotaging railroads.
The railroad is coming. The tracks have been laid right through the studio gates. It's time to get out of the horseshoe business.
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