It took only two and a half months for this to get on /., it's yesterday's news tomorrow, as usual.

The figure is now over 10k withdrawals from the church since the debate; €1.5M was the estimate for about half that number.

So, what's stopping Linux from using the HDCP-encrypted content then, if the hardware (regardless of the OS) does all the job?

Are you being dense on purpose? Please explain the difference the main differences in hardware in HDCP-capable hardware running Windows vs. the same hardware running Linux. It's fully a software problem, and you can do format shifting and outputting the result to a screen on the fly, too.

The code is about breaking all handshakes in HDCP content protection, so you might there goes your argument in any case.

Why don't you start by explaining how HDCP content over HDMI is different in Windows as compared to Linux?

This was addressed earlier in another post. You get the GPU-monitor and probably optical drive-motherboard (or GPU, if it's "direct" lane)handshakes made, there's (basically) no need for extra hardware, you just need the processing power to get the content decrypted.

We have seen plenty of specific HDCP breaks that can decrypt a limited set of movies; this is the general break, which does not care much about the HW and firmware (optical drive) details.

Yes, and you don't answer the question. If I have two similar computers, both HDCP capable at least on paper, what's the physical difference? HDCP is meant to be fast in the hardware, but it doesn't mean that it's not possible to decrypt it in software; and more to the point, there is no physical difference as the GGGP implies: It's just the same hardware.

Hmm, lost me there. Answer me this: What separates a HDCP capable computer without the software player from a HDCP capable computer with the software player? All the same parts, from Blu-Ray player to the graphics to the monitor.

As both cheap graphics cards and motherboards with HDMI outputs are very much mainstream nowadays, I think your use of the word "specialized" is inaccurate here.

Core 2 Duo P9600 has 2 cores; we have moved much past that stage with six core CPUs and advancements in CPU architecture after C2D, and like mentioned, the code presented is pretty much an early alpha.

Great stuff! Shows Intel's representative's earlier comments about software implementation not being feasible quite wrong.

I know you are trying to be funny, but you still should have replied the GP here, not me.

Absolutely right, emphasis on the tiny chance. Where are my mod points...

Thanks for the tip.

You can "easily" change the button positions in Gnome: Open terminal, type "gconf-editor", go to /apps/metacity/general, and edit "button_layout" key value. "menu:minimize,maximize,close" is the Windows-like layout, IIRC.