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Xbox 360 Kiosk Demo Spurs Hackers

Posted by Zonk on from the i-wish-i-had-that-kind-of-free-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Those hackers from team PI have released the Xbox 360 experience kiosk demo disc as an ISO. They say this demo contains no media protection and therefore it will run on the Xbox 360 when burned to a DVD-R disc. The disc contains playable demo's on the disk such as Call of Duty 2, which could also be hackable, as PI speculates."

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  1. Not suprising... by Ruff_ilb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But -

    Won't we have demo disks released soon enough? I doubt OXM, among other publications, will pass up on making demo disks.

    Besides, can't demos and media be downloaded from Xbox Live as is? I didn't get my hands on a 360, but this is what I've heard.

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  2. Re:No DRM == license to copy freely? by taskforce · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No, it just allows you the fair use you were originally granted before the DMCA was put in. Copyright law still applies to everything you get, it's just that unlike making a backup of a CSS protected Video DVD, you can make a backup of this unprotected demo disk beucase you didn't have to break encryption.

    However, becuase of the very nature of this disk (restricted kiosk) it is unlikely that 99% of people will be able to make backup copies of it under fair use.

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  3. No breakthrough here by Smarty2120 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you try the 360's demo downloading capability, you know that it can run downloaded content. I haven't sniffed the data stream myself, but encrypted connections slow servers down quite a bit and it's doubtful that xbox live servers even use them for content download on the order of a 500MB demo. Those binaries are signed just like the demos on the discs which can be burned. By signing the binaries, they don't need to worry about how the code got on the xbox. DVD-R, download, remove hard drive->write binary->reinstall hard drive, iPod, it doesn't matter a bit. If it doesn't execute binaries that aren't signed by microsoft's private key, it doesn't matter how you give it the binary, it won't run it. This is a non-story. Unless someone steals or or breaks microsoft's private key, this is gonna need a hardware hack at minimum.