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."

Comments

Re: BD+ Cracked

[plague3106]

Why? Did the data on the disc somehow break the encryption on its own? Or is it that certain people want information to be free?

Re:The power of abstraction

[pnewhook]

The same principle makes it legal to make backup copies of copyrighted material (whether software, music, videos, etc), as long as I own the original medium.

No not quite. Yes it is perfectly legal to make personal copies of music for your own use, but not because of fair use, but because there was a separate act passed called the 'Audio Home Recording Act'. This act does not extend to video. Fair use laws does not cover backups.

Your other comments assume fair use laws allow you to make backups - it does not.