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Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack

Posted by kdawson on from the cat-meet-mouse dept.

Google85 writes in with a brief Enquirer piece reporting on an announcement on a German site that SlySoft claims to have cracked BD+, the extra copy-protection layer in Blu-ray. Here is the German original.

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  1. doom9 by legoman666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some more info about it at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=130527&page=5 Knew it was only a matter of time...

  2. Slysoft is GOOD STUFF by maillemaker · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't have an HD-capable TV, so I don't fool around with Blu-ray or any of that stuff yet.

    But I wanted to take this opportunity to say how great Slysoft's software is.

    I tried at least half a dozen pieces of "free" software trying to rip DVDs and re-encode them to .AVI files. While I could usually get the ripping done (Ripit4me worked), I could never get a re-encoding to work that didn't have audio/video sync issues.

    I plied all the forums, downloaded endless codecs and other whosit and whatsit pieces here and there and could never get it to work. So much for "open source".

    So I laid out $80 to Slysoft. One package to rip the DVDs, and one package to re-encode them into a variety of formats (I use .AVI). It has worked flawlessly.

    I'm a big Slysoft fan now.

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    A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection.
    1. Re:Slysoft is GOOD STUFF by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Informative

      Although their Windows version has a ways to go, HandBrake is fantastic for ripping/encoding DVDs in one fell swoop. 99% of the time, 'it just works'.

      The more recent versions have made it a bit less "mac-like" (ie. they added a whole lot more configuration options), but it's still dead-on simple to use.

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      -- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
  3. translation by bvdbos · · Score: 3, Informative

    English translation...

  4. Re:Problems by jabuzz · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must my joking. Here in the UK I can get dual layer media for 82p each in a cake box of 25. I know my brother uses them to knock of Disney DVD's so that when my niece has scratched it to pieces he can just bang out another copy from the original. A lot cheaper than a new Disney DVD at upwards of 15GBP each.

  5. Re:How to translate MPAA claims. by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 4, Informative

    Without the BD ROM Mark the disk can't be decrypted quite yet.
    The article makes no claim that this has been cracked. No, it just means that without the BD ROM-Mark (and the magic equipment needed to write it to another BD-ROM disc), a bit-for-bit copy can't be made. However, a remastered copy should present no problem at all.

    In other words, the BD ROM-Mark is not intended to stop access to the encrypted movie, it is intended to stop someone from duplicating the original disc without decrypting it all.
  6. Re:So i guess if true by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fox can't sue the MPAA because the MPAA is an organization made up of the studios. The organization Fox would sue for this would be the AACS-LA, and they could maybe sue them for failing to meet contractual obligations or something. But even that would be a stretch.

  7. Re:keeping people in a job... by sjames · · Score: 2, Informative

    About the same number that I have seen smoking weed (or offering to sell me weed). It seems the law isn't making much of a difference. It will happen no matter the legal status. The only difference is a few bad decisions with weed can easily send them in the wrong direction due to the so called justice system. The same bad decisions with alcohol are more likely to get someone killed (still not honestly that likely) but less likely to screw the survivors up for life. Again, this has nothing to do with the effects of the drug, but is based on the screwy way society treats their use.

    Were weed legal for adults and a misdemenor for minors (even if a felony for adults to sell to minors), it would probably cause less problems than alcohol.