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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken

Posted by Zonk on from the open-season dept.

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."

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  1. Nice. by FatSean · · Score: 5, Funny

    In five years, when I finally buy into HD television and content, there should be an assload of free content out there to download.

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    1. Re:Nice. by alx5000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... as if a million RIAA execs cried out in terror and were silenced at once...

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    2. Re:Nice. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

      An 'assload' is the metric name for 'buttload', both of which are greater than or equal to 1 'shitload' or 'crapload', respectively. I know the whole Imperial/metric conversion thing is problematic at times, but you could've at least Googled this before asking such a silly question.

    3. Re:Nice. by stewwy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its important to be fair and ensure both formats are equally broken.

    4. Re:Nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, wouldn't the correct metric term be "arseload"?

    5. Re:Nice. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, wouldn't the correct metric term be "arseload"?

      That's an Imperial assload; it's only used in Britain. It's equal to 1.24 U.S. assloads.

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    6. Re:Nice. by 117 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's an Imperial assload; it's only used in Britain. It's equal to 1.24 U.S. assloads. Your figures are incorrect, the comparative sizes of arse/asses between the two nations means that there are in fact 1.6 UK arseloads to every US assload.
    7. Re:Nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, it's calculated by the internal volume, not the external surface area. We Americans are lard asses, but the British are full of shit.

    8. Re:Nice. by carlmenezes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which kinda explains why America is so focussed on oil and British ideas never float....

      *ducks* hehehe :)

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  2. DVD-JON by otacon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish Jon Johansen would have done it so he could be called HD-DVD Jon, or maybe Blu-Ray Jon.

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    1. Re:DVD-JON by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, but now we got HD-DVD Blu Arnezami. That's at least as easy to say and remember as DVD-JON.

      What?

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    2. Re:DVD-JON by definate · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wish someone named Charles could have cracked Blue-Ray so we could have Blue-Ray Charles.

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  3. drm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    years to create, weeks to break- sounds about right.

    1. Re:drm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The solution is obvious, we need even tighter, more intrusive DRM!

  4. For as long as... by DimGeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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 :) :) :)

  5. In response by physicsboy500 · · Score: 5, Funny

    New DRM protection methods are now in the works which were cracked last week.

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  6. Success! by FreakinSyco · · Score: 5, Funny

    The format war is over! We win!

  7. Re:All DRM implementations will be broken. by tzhuge · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  8. Re:All DRM implementations will be broken. by Mercedes308 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Re:props to Muslix64 and hackers everywhere by stile99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Not true at all... by Lanoitarus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...."