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Blu-ray BD+ Cracked
An anonymous reader writes "In July 2007, Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group (BD+ Standards Board) declared: 'BD+, unlike AACS which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10 years.' Only eight months have passed since that bold statement, and Slysoft has done it again. According to the press release,
the latest version of their flagship product AnyDVD HD can automatically remove BD+ protection and allows you to back-up any Blu-ray title on the market."
Not with Vista you can't... or won't be able to in the future rather.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Nope, I chose to wave away his (your?) irrelevant racist opinions with a wave of my hand and a sarcastic jab to his ribcage. If that's enough for you to derive my actual intelligence then well done! You must also be highly intelligent!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine:
When will you learn that questions should end with a question mark?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
It's like what those wanna be Jack Baur types always say about fighting terrorism: we have to be right every single time; they only have to be right once. Honestly, I think these DRM folks go home and laugh themselves to sleep. In what other industry is total failure so acceptable? If condom manufacturers were held to the same low standards, half the planet would have AIDS (but not most /. readers, har har).
The various content providers will get it through their heads eventually that DRM punishes their paying customers while it barely slows the pirates down. The downside to the average consumer is that all of this content will have to be paid for somehow. ABC isn't going to keep cranking out Lost out of the goodness of their hearts. So what that will mean is more and more "product integration".
I actually sort of miss the old days. We had the ability to time shift - it was called a VCR, and it worked fine. You zapped the commercials with your remote, and you could keep the tape for years if you wanted. Now, I can get any show I want on Bit Torrent, but given that so many shows have become long commercials, do I really want them?
Sometimes product integration doesn't feel too intrusive - James Bond has always driven a flashy car. But sometimes, it's not nearly so feasible. If they find a way to work an ad for Red Bull into John Adams, I swear I will never watch TV again.