Blu-ray's DRM Cracked

"The copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same plain text attack in both cases. By reading a key held in memory by a player playing a HD DVD disc he was able to decrypt the movie been played and render it as an MPEG 2 file."
-www.theregister.co.uk

Shocked? Not really, but this doesn't mean anyone can do it. The hacker posted a tool to help crack the DRM, but every disc is different, and you have to crack each disc's unique key. Apparently this new DRM on high definition discs is going to be a much bigger problem than the MP3 DRM, and I don't see the rival companies (Blu-ray and HD DVD) ever giving up on their anti-piracy software. Perhaps, because pirating films is a bit less common that pirating music and people aren't going to be making a big stink about it. The only question now is, which company will win the battle, if any will win at all. It's one thing to crossover from VHS to DVD, but its another to crossover from DVD to a higher quality DVD. I haven't seen Blu-ray or HD DVD in action, yet, but it's got to be a drastic difference for it to be widespread. My opinion? Wait for these companies to fight it out, until one dominates. Then I'll worry about the DRM.
In other news, Apple has committed to join the Blu-ray Association, and opted to hold a seat on the main board. Which means the DRM will sure as hell never get lifted from the discs anytime soon. This union will surely make HD DVD the underdog contender, even while having the much more sensible name. Anyway, the DRM situation is going to be a difficult battle to win in this case. It's going to be a difficult task to get people to rally against it. Only time will tell, I suppose.