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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."
The original was Posted by kdawson too... http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/2034242
Wikipedia states that it only enables backups, which are then played with a software player which is Blu-Ray compatible. It doesn't look like VLC will be playing BD+ protected media anytime soon.
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Slysoft has made this claim before. It turned out to be bogus. The crack allowed a user to copy a BD to the harddrive and play it back from there using only a specific version of Cyberlink's PowerDVD (3319a), but not to transcode, otherwise manipulate the content or play it back from a burned BD-R or BD-RE. (Wiki)
Now I'd like everyone to remember that BD+ is not an `algorithm` per se. It's not a DRM one way function. BD+ is a virtual machine and a blu ray disk is a full fledged program that runs under the VM and can even run native code to patch and upgrade the virtual machine.
This is akin to running a java application that can inspect the java VM.
It's a cat and mouse game for now.
*Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD%2B
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But when it comes to things like DRM and security it's just a disaster waiting to happen. What happens is that this will be a magnet and a challenge for all hackers regardless of intent just because they want to prove the statement wrong.
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The crack allows you to play the media at full quality on systems that do not have a fully HDCP compliant chain. Example: If you have a home theater TV hooked up to an older HDTV that only has component inputs, or if you have a non HDCP video card, you can use this "crack" to play your discs at full quality.
You bought a disk full of data.
DRM locks the data to the disk, requiring you to risk damaging the only copy of the data you bought in order to access said data.
Fair use is copying the data you bought to another device so you can access it from there.
I'm surprised you need it explaining to you, are you a bit dumb ?
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The copy protection is meant to prevent you from backing up your only copy of the disk to another device, which falls under fair use. Also, you cannot format-shift because of the copy protection. If you buy an HD movie and want to downsample it for use on your iPod, you can't unless you get past the copy protection.
The studio's line works just fine if you're okay only watching your movies in your Blu-Ray player and only if the keys to the disks are still valid and only if you even still have a blu-ray player years from now. If you buy a movie you should be able to enjoy it howsoever you see fit as long as that doesn't involve charging people money to view it or selling copies you've made from it.
Seriously. You must be new here 'cause I might just be modded redundant people have been over this so many times on Slashdot.
No, you don't. It's uncompressed, but not "perfect" because it still has the compression artifacts. Then, when you recompress it, it has two sets of compression artifacts. Although it's higher quality than aiming a video camera at the display, it's still more-or-less the same as the "analog hole."
To really count as "cracking," the attacker needs to get access to the decrypted but still encoded stream.
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The different Blu-Ray "profiles" require different hardware, which is obviously not something that can be fixed by a firmware upgrade.
Profile 1.0, otherwise known as the grace period profile, only required 64KB of local storage for key revocation lists.
Profile 1.1, which is the "final standard" profile (though it was only required for players released after 11/1/2007, leaving over a year of BD player production supporting an incomplete featureset) requires 256MB of local storage as well as secondary audio and video decoders to allow for PIP and overlay audio commentary.
Profile 2.0 adds networking and Internet connectivity to the mix and ups the local storage requirement to 1GB. This profile is equivalent to the features that have been mandatory in HD-DVD from day one.
The only upgradable hardware BD player is the PS3, since it already had the hardware for other purposes. Profile 1.1 support was pushed out in a software update soon after it became mandatory in standalone players and profile 2.0 support was announced yesterday and is expected some time next month.
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There are a variety of reasons HD DVD was better from an end-consumer's standpoint, though not necessarily a studio's:
The only real downside was the lower capacity, and with an HD DVD disk topping out at 30G (there had been a plan to increase that to 50G without increasing the price of the players by adding a third layer), capacity for an ordinary 1080p movie was never really an issue. I hear they had trouble fitting a lossless soundtrack on the Transformers HD DVD, one of the rare occasions the capacity was stretched, and there's some evidence that wasn't true either. My 2001 HD DVD has gorgeous quality, a DolbyHD lossless soundtrack, and a whole bunch of features, all on one single sided double layer disc.
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cat and mouse game is too much effort for the pirates
Just to be clear, pirates aren't the ones playing that cat and mouse game. When you see a street vendor selling pirated copies of Star Wars, he's selling actual Blu-ray discs. He made bit-for-bit copies and he didn't need to decrypt anything to do it. The fact that Blu-ray is encrypted didn't do anything to prevent the pirate from stealing the content.
Decryption is needed by people who want to *gasp* watch the discs they legally purchased at BestBuy.
Ah, your post takes me back to when DVDs were first being ripped. The same arguments of impracticality were being made then. "DVDs hold 8 gigs, and we only have ~40 gigs of HDD space to store the VOBs."
...or so I'm told.
There's a difference now, though. Back then, you had to recode the vobs with some crappy (by today's standards) codec like old QuickTime, or asf or something. Nowadays, DVDs can be recoded and stored in XviD format with a decent quality tradeoff. Likewise, BD can be recoded to x.264 and stored in about 4.5 gigs.
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Its also an entropy thing. It may well be that like almost everything else we observe information follows a concentration gradient. That is if you concentrate information with a small group of people you have to constantly expend energy keeping it there. So if you decide gee I only want people who purchase a certain bit of plastic to watch my move you have to put alot of energy into keeping the movie on the plastic. Eventually it will get off if you don't. It may well be that DRM is like heating your house; the more insulation you have(stronger DRM scheme) the better but as soon as you take the input energy away (turn off the heater)/(complete your encrypting) the temperature will always equalize with the outside(the movie will propagate to places where the disk is not present).
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uncompressed MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is a compression standard
There is nothing stopping a dedicated pirate from going, pixel by pixel, dumping the current pixel color values into a massive 2d array
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Actually, there is. It's called HDCP, and means that only "authenticated" output devices will get digital data.
I doubt those devices will stop a dedicated pirate with good soldering talents. The data has to go to the screen at some point.
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