Futile efforts: the cat is out of the bag (Score 1)

I personally don't think it even matters who wins this case. The cat is already out of the bag. In order to prevent the use of the crack for piracy in the future, the encryption will need to be improved anyway. And I'm quite sure that financial gain is not the objective here.

Any enterprising geek will be able to find information about the crack because it will be impossible to completely stifle something like this. I specify geek here because I can't imagine that the average DVD buyer cares too much for this sort of thing, if he/she is even aware of it. The average user will just by the appropriate player.

For some reason, companies just feel obligated to sue. Perhaps to maintain the status quo. Maybe they'll get over it some day.