It's better to remove the DRM completely for your laptop or portable player copies as there is significant processing / power usage overhead to the decryption of AACS, which reduces your portable movie players battery life.
It could be argued that you owe the environment and your electricity bill to de-AACS every title you buy and then play the decrypted version in the future. Save our planet - ban DRM!
See recent Anantech article on 8600GTS HD decode to see that the (CPU) overhead of decrypting AACS.
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nemi @ May 24th 2007 12:42PM
It's better to remove the DRM completely for your laptop or portable player copies as there is significant processing / power usage overhead to the decryption of AACS, which reduces your portable movie players battery life.
It could be argued that you owe the environment and your electricity bill to de-AACS every title you buy and then play the decrypted version in the future. Save our planet - ban DRM!
See recent Anantech article on 8600GTS HD decode to see that the (CPU) overhead of decrypting AACS.