Hollywood Vs Pirates – The 8 Day War Over HD

By Nicholas Longtin | May 2007

Pirates have long plundered Hollywood’s vast entertainment riches for fun and profit. With new HD formats on the horizon, media makers felt confident that they had learned from past mistakes, and took the necessary steps to protect their new, high-res digital assets.

Well they were wrong, very wrong. All it took was a determined hacker, a few gallons of coffee, and 8 days to put the first chink in HD’s armor.

Now that the super secret code, the keys to the proverbial kingdom, has been leaked, it’s all down hill from here. All that is left for Hollywood to do is futilely fight pirates on the high seas, with a big gaping hole already in their boat.

The HD Code Is Out

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