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The level of security that Vista is trying to achieve to protect video and audio is more extreme than anything the US government has ever considered necessary for protecting its most sensitive classified data. (...) The fact that the legally-purchased content wouldn't play on a legally-purchased player because the content protection got in the way was the motivating factor for the crack. The time taken was about a week.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html