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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken
gEvil (beta) writes "According to an article at BoingBoing, the processing keys for the AACS encryption scheme used by both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray video discs have been extracted, and a crack has been released. What this means is that there is now a method to extract the copy-protected content of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc out there. This is different from Muslix64's previous crack, which only extracted the volume key for each disc. This new method bypasses this step and allows anyone to extract the data without first requiring the volume key."
In five years, when I finally buy into HD television and content, there should be an assload of free content out there to download.
Blar.
I wish Jon Johansen would have done it so he could be called HD-DVD Jon, or maybe Blu-Ray Jon.
In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
years to create, weeks to break- sounds about right.
HA! HA!
We have always been at war with Eurasia!
Or things could go in the opposite direction. Just wait 'till they hear about one-time pads!
Of course, that would mean that no one could watch their stuff, period, but hey - at least no one could pirate it either!
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
... there are developers clever enough to lie to the media companies that this can be done, and then get paid to do it over and over again. :) I kinda like the idea :) :) :)
from the open-season dept.
Of all the movies to pirate, why'd Zonk have to choose that one?!?
This guy's the limit!
New DRM protection methods are now in the works which were cracked last week.
The original generic sig.
The format war is over! We win!
You know, if they go for one-time pad encryption for only the most popular movies, then society would probably be better off. Hopefully they could implement that right at the source - Will Farrell and Ben Stiller themselves encrypted with one-time pads. Yeah, that'd about do it for me.
Hmm... the logical conclusion is the MPAA needs site security in people's homes so they can prevent access to the hardware. They're probably working on it right now. Maybe some sort of USB powered taser would work?
I was thinking along the lines of having the hardware on a platform in the middle of an aquarium surrounded by sharks with fricken tasers on their heads.
And no, I couldn't give a shit what my karma is.
Now it's time to print up all those T-Shirts with the Processing Key:
;)
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0...
Available for just $19.95
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Informative? INFORMATIVE?
Man, you people better hope I don't get this one on metamod (which I suppose now I've tossed out the window, but oh well).
This is the same head-in-the-sand crap we've been hearing for months now. "It will be ROCK SOLID! No way will anyone ever break it! This is the absolute best, most secure copy protection ever! We fin...wait, what? It's broken already? DAMN!"
It's dead. You lost. As we all have been telling you for months now. "All is not lost, we'll change the key!" Yes. You will. And in less time than it took you to change the key, and at far lesser expense...we'll get that one too.
Face it. We're coming to your house. If you take the numbers off, we'll just go to the house with no numbers. If you take the numbers off from the neighbor's house, we'll just come to the house next to the house with no numbers.
You. Lost.
Cool. You have solved the cooling problem to...
The IRS perfected it years ago... Ive been trying to decode my goddam tax return for the past two weeks and I still cant crack it.
We should just let them handle music distribution... "Put the song title from box 34 into this box, but only on a leap year that ends in an odd number...."
You still believe that Mossad/CIA fairy tale? That's just a story The Man puts out to appease the people who are too smart to believe the Bin Laden hoax, but not smart enough to question anything else.
Open your eyes and see the truth, man! 9/11 was executed by the International Male Models' Union working in conjunction with Major League Baseball. It's so obvious you probably overlooked it at first, but dig deeper. It checks out.
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Presumably there's a decent number of blameless consumers already using that player. What's the commercial impact of pissing them off?
It's HD-DVD/Blu-Ray we're talking about. I bet both of the consumers will be really pissed.
Rich.
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I have paid for every single DVD I own.
Me too, every one.
Usually in spindles of 100.