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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. 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.