Wanna take a guess?
Posted on 01/23/2007 2:21:08 PM PST by steve-b
The copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same plain text attack in both cases. By reading a key held in memory by a player playing a HD DVD disc he was able to decrypt the movie been played and render it as an MPEG 2 file.
The latest Blu-ray hack was performed by muslix64 using a media file provided by Janvitos, through the video resource site Doom9, and applied to a Blu-ray copy of the movie Lord of War. In this case, muslix64 didn't even need access to a Blu-ray player to nobble the DRM protection included on the title....
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
This guy is good.
They should offer a contract to do the job right.
I wonder who will win that one?
Dang kid!
Leave that disk alone!!!! Quit messing with it!!!!
You put that copy protection BACK on there right now, mister!!!!!!
nobble?
Bill Gates should hire this guy at 750K per year.
Gee that didn't take long.
Didn't Sony invent some "uncopyable" CD, and people found they could copy it just fine by filling in the inner-rim of the disk with a indelible marker?
Yes!!!
DEATH TO RIAA AND MPAA!!! :P
Good. We should be able to make a backup copy of the defective junk DVDs they sell. The things skip like crazy when they don't even have a smudge sometimes.
Wanna take a guess?
Interesting, but doesn't MPEG2 have substantially lower resolution than Blu-Ray?
MPEG-2 is an endcoding standard. Blu-ray is an optical format. Different things. MPEG-2 has whatever resolution the encoder wants it to have. Blu-ray supports the standard suite of SD and HD resolutions for video playback.
Looks like it's back to the drawing board.....
Our geeks are better than yours.
This is not good news. AACS has NOT been broken - in fact it is designed specifically for situations like this.
Since both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are still new, if true defeat of AACS is found, the studios will just refuse to release titles on the platforms.
If you hadn't noticed, the thieves get a lot of support around here.
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