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4 unusual facts about Advanced Access Content System


AACS

Advanced Access Content System, a standard for content distribution and digital rights management

Advanced Access Content System

Some sites that rely on user-submitted content, like Digg and Wikipedia, tried to remove any mentions of the key.

Debbie Does Dallas ... Again

On July 12, 2007, the movie became the first adult title licensed by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) to hit the marketplace in the Blu-ray Disc format.

International Standard Audiovisual Number

The ISAN identifier is incorporated in many draft and final standards such as AACS, DCI, MPEG, DVB, and ATSC.


ECC patents

On May 30, 2007, Certicom filed a lawsuit against Sony in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Marshall office, claiming that Sony's use of ECC in Advanced Access Content System and Digital Transmission Content Protection violates Certicom's patents for that cryptographic method.


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