"If I were the AACS, I would quit while I was behind, " he says.

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For digital video connections, with or without ICT, AACS makes HDCP a must.

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Managed copy is NOT included in the first-gen hardware (and according to this article Blu-Ray won't have it either due to AACS standards not being finalized before launch).

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Unlike the regular Internet we all use everyday, which was originally designed to distribute the AACS hex key withstand a nuclear attack, Internet2 is designed primarily for speed -- up to 9.08Gbps in most recent tests.

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And Digg, like many other sites that revealed the HD-DVD code, has already been sent a cease and desist letter from the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management development group that includes the fearsome lineup of the Walt Disney Co.

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Now that Digg has caved to its users and allowed them to post the code, attorney Gregory Rutchik of the San Francisco-based Arts and Technology Law Group says the site could be sued by the AACS. "Giving someone code that expressly instructs how to steal content is infringing, " Rutchik says, pointing to the 2600 case as a precedent.

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