I hate DRM. That is my personal position as a consumer.
However, we now have to sit on the other side of the table as manufacturers. On this side of the table, the question is will the consumer want to buy DRM compatible equipment, or even will they buy it because they have to.
So, we can proceed on the presumption that AACS will be totally cracked like CSS has been, and make equipment that accepts only unencrypted H.264 HP video data (presuming that the host system will decrypt AACS in software) and produces unencrypted HDMI output, or we can make a system that will comply with the license terms and will accept AACS encrypted video data, uses AES to transmit any intermediate data stream on a consumer bus, and produces HDCP encrypted HDMI output (and has no way for the host system to turn the HDCP off in the cases where it is required).
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