Quick hop back in time....
http://www.cs.cmu.ed.../DeCSS/Gallery/"This is the
source code for the CSS descrambling algorithm that was posted anonymously to the LiViD mailing list in October 1999. The C code was supposedly written by someone who disassembled a software DVD player to uncover the descrambling algorithm. It was this posting that led Frank Stevenson to conduct his analysis of the CSS encryption scheme. The code was subsequently included in an unsealed (
whoops!)
legal filing by John Hoy, president of the DVD-CCA, in the California trade secret lawsuit against Andrew McLaughlin and 92 other defendants. Guess it's not a trade secret anymore. More about that
here."
Guess what?!
No one would do the same thing again right!?
File the keys open for the public that is...
With the court docs filed as of 20110111 (
LINK page 247) Sony themselves put the ROOT KEY in public domain.
That's gold... haha.