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Doom9 Researchers Break BD+
An anonymous reader writes "BD+, the Blu-ray copy protection system that was supposed to last 10 years, has now been solidly broken by a group of doom9 researchers. Earlier, BD+ had been broken by the commercial company SlySoft." Someone from SlySoft posts a hint early in the thread, but then backs off for fear of getting fired. The break is announced on page 15.
The content must contain sufficient information for the content to be decoded.
You do remember that we are talking blueray discs here? What user content could possibly be on them that is not available in a cheaper, already broken format? Brand-spanin' new movies?!? If those movies were worth watching, people would be paying for them. People are not paying because all the new movies are garbage. A single, random good movie (Dark Knight) will not be enough to get people to move to this quagmire of technology.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Some pedant like me is going to bring this up so it might as well be me. The abstract machines such as the "Turing Machine" defined this before Donald Knuth was even born, but the revered doctor has contributed much to practice with theory and example.
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