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So far they haven't used this "revocation" technique, and it's doubtful they will

Not so. At least according to this article [http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/1417253].

What you are missing is that many players can be upgraded to make them "more secure" after their keys have been revoked. The user has little choice, because the player can't be used without the upgrade. The player in the article is a software player, so releasing a new version is easy. "Hardware" players will need new firmware, but this may not be a big problem since "they" want players to phone home anyway.

As for the memory dump hack, there may be some problems with that. First, software players will now reduce the time the key exists in memory. More worrisome is that Vista is trying to lock you out from examining memory (and other things). The kernel will prevent access to memory of protected processes, and the pagig file will be encrypted as well. This is largely pointless since exploits exist that allow installation of unsigned drivers, etc., but it will slow down and limit access to *your* computer in order to protect someone else's content.

There are hopeful signs on the horizon. Music publishers may actually be waking up to the fact that DRM alienates customers and reduces sales. Courts are recognizing the right of people to copy movies to a jukebox (though the jukebox in this case is locked down tighter than the original media).

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Dont know if you would classify this as a hack but you would definatley call it cool. this only works when ther are images on the screen.
put this line of code in the URL (remove line breaks)

javascript: R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24;
x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200;
x5=300; y5=200;
DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length;
function A(){ for(i=0; i<DIL; i++) { DIS=DI[ i ].style;
DIS.position='absolute';
DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5;
DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5;
} R++; } setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

-cleaned and edited by alt3rn4tiv3 for the sake of keeping every single post in this thread neat and useful-
it's basically an effect which makes an image move in an arc-like fashion.
for those who cannot see the effect, use IE.
-/clean and edit-