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."

Comments

Re:Getting Old

[mabhatter654]

The part where you have 19 MegaBYTES per second of bandwidth...(full 1080p stream from disc) that's higher than 100Mb (100M bits/ 8 bit.byte ~ 12MB) can push.

Even with Gig, you couldn't run many other machines or they'd shut you down unless you had good switches (not consumer junk). They don't let you stream the display, so you'd have to stream the file, from physical media, to the PC, to the network fast enough to keep up with playback.

good luck with that.

Re:Getting Old

[TheGratefulNet]

MANY of us already bought into the centralized notion of 'media servers'.

this flies directly in the fact of 'feed the damned physical media in, one by one'.

I WILL NOT TOLERATE THAT (yelling intended).

neither will most of my peers.

BD can go fuck itself; until its fully and finally cracked they BD product sellers wont' see a dime from me.

the very notion that there is running code to 'work against the user in an arms race' is sickening to me. by definition each disc contains malware. and you are, currently, FORCED to run that malware.

sheesh. no thanks, sony. go fuck yourself.