[mythtv-users] DVB - W5 (4DTV) & KU/C-Band Question

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/18/2010 14:54, Richard Morton wrote:
> It would be an interesting case (on someone elses dime naturally) to 
> test at what point a cracked DRM becomes ineffective... is it at the 
> point of being broken, the point at being made public or when a 
> particular percentage of users knows about it, or something else?...

There have been several court cases about it already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidescape#Fair_Use
Kaleidescape had a networked DVD player, that would cache any DVD stored 
internally onto a hard drive, and stream it to remote players.  They won 
that case based off the fact that the disk was locked in the player when 
cached

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks#RealDVD
RealNetworks tried to make a commercial DVD ripper, under the claims 
that the system no longer constituted effective security.  They lost.