Is Google Responsible for Cracking HDCP?

[admin]

Google has received a Cease and Desist notice from the AACS (Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator). The legal body behind HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) seeks to protect high definition movies from being copied by going after search engines ...

http://www.gizmocafe.com/blogs/gizmo_cafe_blog/archive/2007/04/30/is-google-responsible-for-cracking-hdcp.aspx

[youthinksoo]

Nuts! Totally Nuts!

[admin]

Not too surprised by this though. I've seen DMCA notices when searching on Google before (a notice saying that search results have been removed due to DMCA notices, and there is a link to see the notice usually).

[Derree]

wow such a big crackdown almost outta the blue..

[doctorhardware]

I would guess that this has been in the works for a long time and is just surfacing now.