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Work Around for New DVD Format Protections
An anonymous reader writes "For the new Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats, Hollywood implemented a complete copy protection scheme; almost everything has to be encrypted and authenticated. Despite the crypto-stuff in Advanced Access Content System and High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, they left the backdoor wide open — they forgot about the PrintScreen button. Using this function you can create exact digital copies of a film picture-by-picture and reassemble them into a stream."
I was trying to view this story but it kept telling me ...
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
But I found a work around!
1 - Shift key - DMCA circumvention
2 - Print Screen - DMCA circunvention
Let's hope they don't take our entire keyboard to protect their stuff from the thieves...
how long until
Printscreen?
Give me a break, somebody please send a HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive to DVD Jon so he can start doing his stuff.
the MPAA has started legal proceedings against keyboard manufacturers for their "Deliberate and malicious attempt to circumvent our government guaranteed profits."
Also, Copyright Lawyers all over the planet needed new pants in order to cope with all of the involuntary orgasms.
More news at 7.
Not with a beowulf cluster!
(sorry, I couldn't NOT do it.)
Skivvy Niner? Email me!
HEY! Look left just ONE MORE TIME!
Of course you don't hit print screen yourself, you get a macro package to do it for you and automate the whole thing.
Cheers,
Ian
If you spill soda in the exact spot right under the Print Screen button, it becomes much easier.
No work is big enough for a very small script.
I can assure you, the best way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
Or I can get one of these
I'm just throwing out ideas here, but could a pirate with decent art skills redraw every frame of the movie on paper? A few thousand pieces of computer paper would be all that's needed. Staple it all together and BAM, sell on the subway corner for 2 bucks a pop. Piracy will never end!
If O2 is good, O3 must be 1.5 times better!
Sacrificing quality. A week? Bah! Just get some neighborhood kids, a box of crayolas, and a jumbo size box of tracing paper. Then, profit. Nobody said that you have to spend the time.
Dammit Otto, you have lupus.
Check this out:
Using my 733t hax0r sk1llz, I can use my EYES to COPY the movie to my BRAIN, where I can remember it OVER and OVER again -- for FREE!
Eat THAT, MPAA!
Not if you script it.
Alternatively you can "script" a sufficient number of those little slave hands instead of using them top make "Action Man" figures for Tesco.
In either case, there are not that many frames in a movie. Even if you use "slaves" it will take less than 500£ to recover all frames in Lord of the Rings this way somewhere in the middle of nowhere in China.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
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Splitting hairs, maybe, but Hollywood would have trouble implementing a flush toilet.
What a shame, with all the crap they come up these days they would sure have good use for it.
"You superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons" - The Simpsons
Wait, HD DVD and BluRay aren't cracked yet? They've been out for weeks... Come on, you lazy hackers!
-Arthur
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules
I don't mind losing a pile of $0.05 cheapo blank CDs to kids, it just goes with the territory, but to lose a $50 game is another matter.
One might say... It's a thousand times worse!
Buh-dum-cha!
Geeks make new software, geeks crack new software, any questions report to nearest geek.
God must be a civil engineer who else but a civil engineer would put a waste water outlet thru a recreational facility.
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"But this one goes to 11!"
You don't have young children do you?
If they guys who designed the copy protection have just the slightest idea of encryption, I'm afraid brute force is not an option. With key lengths of 256 or 512 bit, we couldn't get through the whole key space in a reasonable timeframe, even with millions of high end machines. And if we did, they would change it and we'd be back at square one.
OTOH, this is the industry that brought us the disaster that is CSS, so there is hope that they fcked it up again and some russian hacker finds an easily crackable loophole once the system is out in the wild.
This is only vaguely ontopic, but are there limits to how many people can "own" a DVD (or the license to watch the DVD, or whatever)?
I ask because if my wife and I purchase a DVD with our collective funds, am I the owner? Is she the owner? Or are we both the owner?
What if 100 people all contributed a nickel and bought a $5 VHS tape of a movie? Can they each make a copy of it? Do you have to own majority share in the VHS to make a copy?
What if 10 million people each paid $1 and all agreed to purchase a certain bundle of films and music that was valued at $10,000,000? Clearly SOMEONE must own it, but who?
Are there any laws about this? I can't seem to find any online (I think my searching skills are for crap on this one), but it seems like a very interesting question.
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"But this one goes to 11!"