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HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed

Posted by kdawson on from the 8-days-to-a-crack dept.

Mr. BS writes "Playfuls.com is running a story how HD DVD's AACS protection has been compromised. Although the video of the hack leaves much to be desired, the source code has already been made available. Feel free to start backing up your HD DVD's whenever you feel the need."

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  1. This is like Fox News covering Iraq by heroine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Every day the kids say they cracked AACS and every day the reality is they didn't even scrach it. Is it because they know they can't win and are desperate to sound like they own AACS?

    The first time, they discovered how to use JMF to play a BD movie on a BD player, as if the whole idea of BD-J wasn't a trick to keep them busy thinking they cracked it. Now they claim to have at least part of an AACS decryption algorithm, assuming it isn't just another JMF call they got out of a BD player.

    It still sounds incredible that the IPod generation even knows what an AACS decryption algorithm is. You wouldn't think, being infactuated with big corporations, CEOs, and marketing, they would want to break encryption like the Walkman generation did with DVD.

    Now all you need is 50 years to reverse engineer one of the millions of keys.