mikesd81 writes “Intel is apparently threatening to use the DMCA against anyone using the HDCP crack under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause. ‘There are laws to protect both the intellectual property involved as well as the content that is created and owned by the content providers,” said Tom Waldrop, a spokesman for the company, which developed HDCP. “Should a circumvention device be created using this information, we and others would avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies.”‘”

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Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack