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BD+ Successfully Resealed

Posted by Soulskill on from the effort-vs.-reward dept.

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."

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  1. Futurama and Firefly? by Samschnooks · · Score: 5, Funny
    That sounds like a direct challenge! If it weren't, Sense and Sensibility, Desperate Housewives, and other chick flicks would be on the list, but no! It's Futurama and Firefly! Two of the geeks Holiest series!

    Next, as a double dare to the Geek community, they'll make Star Trek and Star Wars unrippable! This is war!

  2. I guess I can't count by tkrotchko · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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?

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  3. Re:You kids and your newfangled slide rules by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:What you do when you buy a SLR McLaren Mercedes by IHC+Navistar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The technology doesn't yet exist to backup a car."

    -The technology does, in fact, exist. It's called a Reverse Gear.

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