Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack

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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Re:keeping people in a job...

[Cheesey]

Some apparent misconceptions:

• Legalising drugs would not destroy the black market. Wrong. The black market survives because it can charge vastly inflated prices for items due to the inherent risks of the trade and the restricted supply. Your local drug dealers do not want drugs to be legalised, because they would be out of business: unable to compete with large corporations such as tobacco and alcohol companies who are absolute experts at distributing intoxicants to customers at minimum cost.
  
• All drugs would be legalised. Clearly there are some drugs that should not be legalised. I don't know of anyone who would argue in favour of legalising Rohypnol, for example. But if a drug is widely used, and the profits from this use are putting billions of $s into organised crime every year, then surely keeping it illegal is as foolish as prohibiting alcohol again?
  
• Legalising drugs would give children easier access to drugs. Wrong. The market would be regulated to minimise this possibility. Currently the market is unregulated, so there is nothing to stop children gaining access to harmful substances. Destroying the black market and replacing it with a legal and regulated market would prevent this.
  

If you still think drugs shouldn't be legal, well, you are entitled to your opinion. Many people feel that drug use is immoral in some sense, although for some reason they do not apply this objection to the drugs that they personally enjoy (alcohol, caffeine, etc.). But keeping popular drugs illegal does more harm than good, by funding organised crime and creating a vast and unregulated black market that can supply anything (even Rohypnol) to anyone (even children).