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DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented

Bodysurf writes "After DVD-Video's CSS encryption was broken in 1999, the music industry chose a much more secure copy-protection method for DVD-Audio called Copy Protection for PreRecorded Media (CPPM). This protection scheme has remained publicly uncracked, but it was circumvented recently, providing the ability to save the unencrypted digital audio data. CDFreaks has the details."

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  1. Re:And no one is shocked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is right! Even if it means we have to kill every single one of you mother....

    Oh, wait, all we did was hack their encryption. Nevermind....

  2. Just wait... by Sierpinski · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet in another 5 years, they'll come out with some ultra-new technology that is REALLY crackproof.

    Its like Tide... its new and improved? You mean there are people STILL working on Tide? (Yeah I know, Seinfeld!)

  3. Re:That took a while, eh? by rokzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I'm a little surprised--why did it take so long for someone to do this?

    because it wasn't until last week that someone actually bought a DVD-Audio disk

  4. Slashdotted already? by Chas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyhoo, this is good news.

    Now I can rip this stuff off to 64K MP3, then convert it over to Real, and finally through to it's final form as a DRM'ed WMA. ;)

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    1. Re:Slashdotted already? by Octagon+Most · · Score: 2, Funny

      "... the real tune is inside your head, and it always sounds fine."

      Except when the voices talk over it.

  5. Great by iamjoltman · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's great, now if only someone could figure out how to circumvent getting Slashdotted.

  6. Re:Copy Protection Is Dumb by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would buy their product immediately.

    Cool... would you burn me a copy or throw up a torrent?

  7. Re:And no one is shocked-Human Nature. by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

    The constitutional right to be entertained must remain in force

    That's what the Right to Arm Bears is all about :)

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  8. FINALLY! by halo1982 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As one of the 3 people in the world who actually own DVD-Audio discs I am very excited about this. Thankfully I was able to get the story and programs before the server went up in flames. I'm alredy ripping my Nine Inch Nails With Teeth DualDisc and it seems to be working quite well. I also had to rip the VIDEO_TS folder after using DVDADecrypter to get WinDVD to read the files when I loaded PPCMRipper. Now it's decoding, and I can't seem to get it to get the multichannel audio. Also, its cutting off the first few seconds of the first track on the disc, but if you hit the back button it starts reencoding the first track. Maybe I could just use a normal dvd audio ripper for this part...

  9. 36 titles at risk! by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 4, Funny

    A search of Amazon shows only 36 hits for "dvd-audio" in the music section, and several of those are actually SACD, not DVD-Audio. Wow. Think of the losses! It could run in the tens of thousands of Yen!

  10. Re:And no one is shocked by dynamo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, don't give away phase II!

  11. Ralph Wiggums by RancidMilk · · Score: 3, Funny

    " scheme has remain publicly uncracked,"
    "Me fail English? Thats unpossible" --Ralph Wiggums

  12. Are they fucking kidding me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The title of TFA:

    DVD-Audio's CPPM can be got around with a WinDVD patch

    I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but WHAT THE FUCK????

  13. Re:Losing Battle by harrkev · · Score: 2, Funny
    I would love to see them give a nod to the hackers by making it something really simple like a key of "12345".
    That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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  14. Oh cool! by suitepotato · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can finally get a rip of the collected works of the Starland Vocal Band!

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  15. No, you are not *MaxHarris*, you are.. by Halvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    an AssHat!!

    Plus you sound like a lier.. I mean lawyer. LOL!!

    And don't forget BUSTER, there are 6.5 billion citizens on the earth, and only a hand full of people *like you* and your big-bad-governments who are over-reacting more and more everday, because they know that *we* are comming for them. :]

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  16. Re:Copy Protection? Yeah, right. -- or Wrong! by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    My sound card supports "What U Hear"

    And all the DRM system has to do is refuse to support your sound card.

    End of discussion.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  17. Re:Amen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But it's cold infridge. Brr.

    Get out of fridge!