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Could have been…

Both were about the same timeframe.

Well, one of the master keys leaked about 15 years back. A researcher posted a paper back in 2003 or so that outlined a method of finding a master key that was likely used by the people who made the release. It was a fun time to be on the internet, the people came together and said, yeah fuck those corpos and everyone reposted the key to every form of social media possible. I knew someone with the key tattooed on their arm (as part of their piracy themed artwork, I used to have pictures)

Now, that particular master key was patched out with a compatibility breaking upgrade, specifically 2.1 of the standard, which was proven to be broken in 2012, but there was less coming together to share it the second time, or the third for 2.2 of the standard.

But yes, if you wanted to code your own, you easily could. Just don’t share it or the sue happy corpos will come knocking.

The HDMI founders were Hitachi, Matsushita (now Panasonic), Maxell, Philips, Silicon Image (now Lattice Semiconductor), Sony, Thomson (now Vantiva), and Toshiba.[3] Intel contributed the HDCP copy protection system.[4] The new format won the support of motion picture studios Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. and Disney, along with content distributors DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network) and CableLabs.[2]

While Sony is a technology company, they’re also a very sue happy IP holder through Sony pictures and Playstation.

Sony continues to be a major player on the HDMI forum.

The movie studios. As the person above said, the HDMI consortium (owned by movie studios) is focused on protecting their members IP rights from pirates. HDMI has built in DRM, that could be removed from an open source driver.

He literally said it. And then dodged the followup questions multiple times.

My gaming distro of choice is Garuda. As long as I keep everything up to date, everything just works.

But it’s also an Arch based distro so everything is bleeding edge, which poses risks of it’s own. I’ve not had it bite me yet, but the risk is there.

It’s a fun game, and the movement system was not actually that hard to learn.

But the upper level players are all doing animation interrupts to put out crazy combos for much faster movement and attacks.

A beginner will learn these interrupts just by playing an hour or so, but chaining them? That takes skill and dedication beyond the norm.

I do remember winning the occasional match, but it was rare. Overall it was a fun game.

GunZ is still around? I played that game back in the day. I remember the skill curve being somewhat vertical…

That list is super helpful. So many games to avoid. Although, I was somewhat surprised by the number of Denuvo removed I’ve gotten through Humble.