Blu-ray and HD DVD AACS broken again?

[DragonMaster]

http://www.techspot.com/news/24355-Bluray-and-HD-DVD-AACS-broken-again.html

Reportedly, another crack for the AACS encryption utilized by Blu-ray and HD DVD has been created. A step above the one that made headlines the past few months from Muslix64, this new crack apparently lets someone get the processing key out of a player, which can then be used to rip any compatible media. An enterprising fellow was able to dump the contents of a players memory at a certain time and was able to retrieve the information required. On top of this ultimately allowing the media to be duplicated, the article brings up a very good (and sarcastic) point regarding the efforts in the first place:

[Kougar]

Permanently broken, it looks like. At least until the AACSLA redoes the entire content protection key setup for both disc formats.

Some days you just have to wonder how much would they save in spent development and implementation costs if they gave up all DRM vs the likely only slightly higher percentage of lost sales. If they keep this up DRM and licensing costs are going to start fighting R&D for budget funding. They already spent more time developing the DRM technology than they did the actual media....