> 5. Sony spends millions on recalls, PR damage control, etc.
Look at it this way:
"Sony, you'd better do a pretty good job of securing your keys, as if
your systems are compromised you'll wear the financial consequences."
There is already precident for Sony (and many others) signing up to
a very similar scheme: DVD's CSS. It was only the fact that the crypto was
so utterly broken that allowed recovery of all disc keys, and thus
the threat of key revocation was rendered moot. That's the only reason
it didn't happen.
One also has to remember that the specific case of Sony is atypical,
in that it is both a hardware vendor and a content provider. Perhaps
looking at an example like Philips, Panasonic or Toshiba would be more
instructive, as they've not got significant investment in content
provision that I am aware of.
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