DRM Madness - All about HD-DVD, Blu-ray and HDTV DRM

[ModBreak] The contents of this site are somewhat outdated and it will no longer receive updates, but it was actual when it was written a year ago. The first HD-DVD and Blu-ray devices have now made it into some rich folks living rooms and there is little to be done about the DRM now but hack it. Though this site has not yielded any result, at least I know several thousand people a month have read it and may have become a little bit wiser or at least learned something new :)

I will continue using the DRMadness.com domain as a Dr. Madness blog (planned, anyways), but I will keep these pages on here for future reference. [/ModBreak]

Links

[aacsla.org] AACS Specification
All the exact details about AACS can be found here. It's a very technical document so make sure you're up to it.

[drmwatch.com] DRM Watch
This site carries all the latest headlines for everything DRM related.

[engadget.com] Microsoft's OPM for the masses
An article explaining some things about Microsoft's PVP-OPM

[engadget.com] HDCP's Shiny Red Button
An article going into HDCP and some very nifty (though expensive) devices to get around HDCP.

[howstuffworks.com] HDTV
A fairly thorough article explaining all about HDTV, for those who don't know what is is or have never seen it in action.

[physorg.com] Blu-ray Disc Association Adds New Copy Protection Features
Article covering the press release about Blu-ray's two new copy protection features.

[ieee.org] DVD Copy Protection: Take 2
Article covering the new AACS and the old CSS.

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia, here are some of the entries for technologies mentioned on this site:
[wikipedia.org] HDTV
[wikipedia.org] DRM
[wikipedia.org] HDMI
[wikipedia.org] HDCP
[wikipedia.org] AACS
[wikipedia.org] PVP-OPM