You cannot roll-back the secure clock on those projection systems. You're only allowed to change the clock for a few minutes a year, manually or automatically. You're supposed to sync your playback machines to a stratum 2 or better time source and keep them synced, to avoid any significant clock drift of the secure clock. Only the secure clock matters for content access validation, the system clock is irrelevant in this case.

You can keep your kidney.

There is nothing dark happening here, just another SNAFU. It's just the general clusterfuck that is digital certificate management and yet another example how something as stupid as a "licensing issue" creates global outages. This isn't the first expired certificate that will do that it and it won't be the last...

The problem isn't so much the Sony projection system though, but rather a stupid oversight of Deluxe: The fact that the signer certificate of the keys that unlock the content have expired. Although the DCI specifications, which apply to Digital Cinema systems like this, specify that those certificates need to be checked for validity, the specifications are ambiguous on WHEN they need to be checked.

So, other projection system vendors (Barco, Dolby) aren't necessarily affected, because they probably checked the validity of the content regarding those requirements, when it was loaded onto the system and not again during playback. When those movies were loaded onto the system, the expired certificate was still valid. Another vendor that seems to be affected is GDC, they probably interpreted the vague DCI/SMPTE specifications the same way as the folks at Sony...

This all happened, because Hollywood wants their precious content to be protected from the evil pirates, but on a day like this, it feels like the pirates win every time...

Why should any company whatsoever be entitled to register a trademark on a generic word from the dictionary? The same goes for Apple, Windows and a whole lot of other stuff out there...

In order to control the populace, it's not necessary to know every little detail about them, that's only useful if you want to sell them something. The CIAs and NSAs of this world still didn't get the memo or are still in denial, but it's really that simple.

If you want to keep your population under control, you simply need to be able to control their source of income. That's also the primary reason why most governments don't like stuff like cryptocurrencies. Full financial transparency ensures they can always cut you off if they see fit to do so and they regularly do this.

Keep in mind: Governments are power-centers, so they're evil, until the opposite has been proven. History should've at least told us that lesson.

It boggles the mind that a site which only seems to have as function to spam your Google image search results with useless junk should be worth $39 Billion...

There clearly is a huge market for "legacy design ICs". So, why is nobody jumping on top of it? Where does all the old equipment go when fabs upgrade their production lines to the newest and greatest? Why not keep the fab or shove the production capacity down the line, as there is clearly a market for decades old IC designs. There is no need to worry about your precious IP as everything in there has been done and copied all over the place, the value is purely in your capability to deliver. I expect the market for "legacy IC designs" to grow. Why do we need to constantly need to re-design stuff if what we have now is good enough and has been tested through time?

This trail is more show than anything else. For being one of the greatest hubs of illicit material on the Internet, they did have a shabby business model, because the whole Cyberbunker operation didn't make much more than a few hundred thousand dollars a year. So, either someone is blowing this thing so far out of proportion, it hurts to even look at it, or those who ran Cyberbunker must have been ignorant jerks, selling their high-risk services for pennies...

Everybody knows you should use Library of Congresses as the most standardized unit on Slashdot.

Nobody in Europe will be able to read the article, because of lameness...

So, what happened? Is this Groundhog Day or did someone restore yesterday's backup?

It's partly the incompetence of Adobe that Flash eventually had to die away. Flash gave us the first viable streaming video, the first interactive video applications and a lot more. If they had built it out to a viable "VM of the Internet" and opened it up for others, it could've been much more than just the stop-gap solution between HTML 5 and modern JavaScript environments. Unfortunately, Adobe seemed to be unable to recognize its full potential and left it to rot. It took them years to come up with a 64-bit version of the runtime, Linux was badly neglected, etc.

The thing is, in this case it's just the original poster that's liable for what he/she (in this case a he) posted, the platform (Twitter) would be largely legally protected against any such actions. What the dumb person in charge of the nuclear codes here doesn't understand, or more likely, doesn't care about, is that Section 230 actually creates something like a level playing field for on-line platforms for people to exercise their freedom of speech. Without limited liability of what their users are saying, an on-line platform can function as a conduit of information. It's a sad state of affairs that we need to talk about those kind of things on the back of a global pandemic. But apparently, the President of "the greatest nation on Earth" wants to break the fabric of the internet, because one social media outlet hurt his feelings...

Yes, they said this very early on, when those things weren't entirely clear yet. Some things need time to be established. Also, declaring a GLOBAL pandemic has far reaching consequences and actually requires a virus to have reached some global spread, before that, you can't really call it a pandemic. Meanwhile, according to Trump, in April, this would all just blow over... I'm waiting for it to blow over...