DRM Scorecard: Hackers 1000, Industry Zero

An anonymous reader writes: InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe put together a scorecard which makes the obvious but interesting point that, when you list every major DRM technology implemented to "protect" music and video, they've all been cracked. This includes Apple's FairPlay, Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, the old-style Content Scrambling System (CSS) used on early DVDs and the new AACS for high-definition DVDs. And of course there was the Sony Rootkit disaster of 2005. Can anyone think of a DRM technology which hasn't been cracked, and of course this begs the obvious question: Why doesn't the industry just give up and go DRM-free?

Digital Video Express

[HTH NE1]

I still haven't heard of anyone cracking the protection on Digital Video Express disks, but that's due to it being a mass-market failure.

Also nothing about ripping SACDs digitally.

5c over 1394

[capitaladot]

To my knowledge, 5c over 1394, the encryption used by the cable companies, is still undefeated.