I suppose the most fitting way to summarise the week's AACS issue is to say that it has not been cracked so much as it has been compromised and even then it might actually be incorrect, since it seems to me (if indeed the claimed hack is true) that PowerDVD is mostly at fault here for not appropriately encrypting the keys it needs to playback the titles in the computer memory. I could be wrong, but that's what I took from reading about the situation, but naturally various forums seem to be blowing this out of proportion a little bit. That's not to say that it isn't potentially a big deal for titles currently on the market on either format, but I'm failing to see a "sky is falling' scenario here.

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Anyway, look- these formats should be smart and allow for managed copies- this will satisfy 99% of us. I know that other format we can't say here can allow for it- I am not sure on HD DVD.
Managed Copy was introduced for HD DVD well before Bluray agreed to adopt it. A while after Microsoft were told where to stick their request the then exclusive Bluray backer Hewlett Packard turned to the BD group and requested MMC and adoption of the HDi interactive system that Microsoft and Disney created (as used in HD DVD for all menus…etc…etc vs Bluray's Java solution). Bluray's people agreed to add the former, but not the latter, and consequently HP ran into the arms of HD DVD and became a format neutral company.

Quite what the hell has happened to MMC I don't know (is it actually mandatory anymore?). It's all gone frustratingly quiet. I suppose there might be a chance we'll hear about it at CES, and in light of the reports of the AACS issue those responsible for implementing Managed Copy might be spurred into getting a move on in introducing a legitimate way to store the films on media servers. It may well be on going issues in straightening out the relationship between AACS and MMC that is delaying it in the first place.