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Blu-ray Protection Bypassed
ReluctantRefactorer writes with an article in the Register reporting that Blu-ray copy-protection technology has been sidestepped by muslix64, the same hacker who bypassed the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. From the article: "muslix64's work has effectively sparked off a [cat]-and-mouse game between hackers and the entertainment industry, where consumers are likely to face compatibility problems while footing the bill for the entertainment industry's insistence on pushing ultimately flawed DRM technology on an unwilling public." WesleyTech also covers the crack and links the doom9 forum page where BackupBluRayv021 was announced.
How about checking out a previous story. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Not quite the same, but similar principal.
I was testing /.'s FireHose system earlier today and saw another submission on this - except that one made it more clear as to what was done to get around the DRM content protection. Basically, its the same thing you can do with a DVD, VCD, or any video file - xvid, h264, etc encoding in avi, ogm, or mastroska containers - that is, make frame-by-frame screen-captures of the video and stitch the resulting images together for a new video file without DRM. To my knowledge, yes, this method does result in a pretty much exact copy of the video, except that because it's basically taking those million frames in the video and saving them as raster images and putting in a fast, 25-30fps slide-show...
or at least thats how I understand how it was done anyway - btw, I think it had said it was something like the Intervideo WinDVD player used, though there are other players which I am sure can do this (from the other article I mentioned)...
acomj- sorry, but I am easily annoyed by this.... their = possessive pronoun thank you, -asshat
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. -FZ
Remember back when desktop publishing software like Word came out ...
OH DEAR GODS! Word is not desktop publishing software! Please, please, please understand that.
Do Not spend your time "formatting" a doc in Word. It will look different on the next computer that opens it, depending on the fonts installed, etc. This is actually a Good Thing (tm) when all you want to do is shove information at people and not have them fussing that they don't have the same fonts or what not. But for the love of all things Holy (and Pre-Press' sanity) Do Not send a Word doc to a Printer (or worse, any other Office format.)
*Whew* Sorry, I think I went a little crazy there...
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