The New York Times, being a leader in media is reporting today that the HD DVD encryption scheme was cracked using BackupHDDVD.

In the blogging world this is old news as we reported on last week. The main point here is not all live in the blogging world and this is new news to them. We can only wait to see what the impact of this is going to be. Will studios be reluctant to produce their films in HD DVD format? Is their some other impact that we can't see? Will people (techies) be more inclined to purchase HD DVDs knowing they can create backups and place them on central media server (as with DVDs)?