In some interesting developments on the console front, it appears that BOTH the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are attracting hackers intent on beating or circumventing copy protection.

The PS3 has hackers installing Linux on the PS3, and are now sucessful in ripping the disk onto the harddrive of the console. Currently it appears that it is a copy, but not perhaps a "playable" copy. However, once the dam is cracked, it only takes time for someone to beat that protection also.

As far as the HD-DVD it appears that some enterprising hackers have hooked up their HD-DVD 360 add-on to their PC. Using some super high powered machines, they copy the Component signal in real time to the harddrive on a server. This is done because the signal is NOT encrypted due to lack of HDMI cables. Once copied, I would imagine it can then be compressed or whatever else they want to do with it.

Pretty interesting how people are trying to outfox the new tech. Not really suprising though.