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BD+ Successfully Resealed
IamTheRealMike writes "A month on from the story that BD+ had been completely broken, it appears a new generation of BD+ programs has re-secured the system. A SlySoft developer now estimates February 2009 until support is available. There's a list of unrippable movies on the SlySoft forums; currently there are 16. Meanwhile, one of the open source VM developers seems to have given up on direct emulation attacks, and is now attempting to break the RSA algorithm itself. Back in March SlySoft confidently proclaimed BD+ was finished and said the worst case scenario was 3 months' work: apparently they underestimated the BD+ developers."
I can tell I must be getting old when one of my first responses is 'Cmon, just go buy the movie already'.
I will shred my adversaries. Pull their eyes out just enough to turn them towards their mewing, mutilated faces. Illyria
Next, as a double dare to the Geek community, they'll make Star Trek and Star Wars unrippable! This is war!
Is the welsh language film industry really that active?
"and said the worst case scenario was 3 months work: apparently they underestimated the BD+ developers"
Okay, so they said worst case scenario was 3 months work [presumably in case BD+ was changed in some way]. And the developer said February 2009 was their date for "fixing" things. Let me do the math slowly:
December 2008 - 0.5 month (half-way through)
January 2009 - 1.0 month
February 2009 - 1.0 month
TOTAL - 2.5 months
So since 2.5 months is less than 3 months, how did they "underestimate" anything?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
before 2008 they made a movie for every Welsh-speaking community per year, after that they went into Welsh porn and the whole thing kinda got commercial.
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Yes, and I'm very disappointed that I can't get put an uncracked HD version of Space Chimps on a movie server.
How *else* are we going to get matter disintegrators?
Isn't that how Science makes progress?
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I'm sure they all started feeling sheepish after that.
I want my movies on a central server in my house for easy access.
The studios made their views on this pretty clear when they sued a company that designed and installed such setups. They prefer you to pay once for a fragile disc and then pay again after your kids use it as a frisbee. The slog back and forth to a shelf of discs is just a daily affirmation of whose bitch you are.
I think it would be deliciously ironic if it got cracked by something like BD+@home running exclusively on modded PS3s... :-)
Make. It. So.
Want to know why Blu-Ray is failing in the marketplace? Because those critical early adopters tend to be people like us, and without that early adopter base, there aren't sufficient manufacturing quantities for economies of scale to bring disc prices down into a price range suitable for ordinary consumers
Absolute rubbish. Compare it to DVD-A, a format with similar advantages, which succeeded to displace CDs. Because it used DVDs people could play and rip them on their laptops, and because it was higher quality people favoured them over CDs. It only took a few years for them to completely displace CD. And, just like BD, it had a format war (with Super Audio CD) when it launched.
Oh, wait. DVD-A had draconian copy protection and was never widely adopted. Carry on...
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