[bawolff]

I think the moral of the story is: there will always be bugs. Any application that will catastrophically fail if even a single user experiences a single security relavent bug is doomed to failure.

In many ways that is why the idea behind the bluray AACS system is briliant (as much as i detest DRM). Its based on the idea of instead of a master key, give each client a different key, which can be revoked (at least for new bluray disks) so that a breach can be mitigated.

[kelnos]

Indeed, and that's why DRM has always been doomed from the start. It's the classic "you have to be perfect 100% of the time, but your attacker only has to get lucky once" situation.

Sure, DRM has been a huge pain for lots of people, and I don't want to think of the billions of dollars wasted on it that could have gone to more productive things... but ultimately people will find ways around DRM, technical and legal measures be damned.