Hilarity abounds in the Ars Technica coverage of the demise of BD+ as a copy protection system.
Ars Technica: SlySoft on Blu-ray BD+ crack: next time it will be easier
Ars Technica: SlySoft on Blu-ray BD+ crack: next time it will be easier
Last week, SlySoft announced that it had definitively cracked the extra layer of DRM that helped make Blu-ray more popular with the studios than HD DVD. The company announced in a post on its forum that the new version of AnyDVD HD (6.4.0.0) will allow users to make "backup security copies" of Blu-ray discs that use BD+.
The real comedy lies in this one quote from a BD+ developer:
The AACS DRM used on both HD formats was cracked relatively quickly, so thestudios put a lot of their hopes on BD+ to preserve the sanctity of the Blu-ray format. Not long after BD+ was certifiedin June 2007, one of its developers boasted that it wasn't likely to be cracked "for 10 years."
See, you just can't go and say things like that. It just lights a fire under the people who reverse engineer stuff for a living, and they make you look like a fool.
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2 comments:
June 2007, one of its developers boasted that it wasn't likely to be cracked "for 10 years."
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The Titanic had better odds.
The only way H'wood is going to prevent copying is to shut down the video industry.
Next, you will be able to get movies on SanDisk chips, then it will come directly over IP or one of its successors right to your in house distribution system.
Any which way technology flows, the signal will be intercepted before presentation, decoded and copied. It is the nature of the beast.
The only thing that could muck up the works better than most is to have some type of 1st order licensing system like a dongle or a private key encryption system where the studio distribution system will encode a copy of Star Wars XVII just for you that only can be encoded with your prepaid key card.
Then they will hide digital signature tags in the stream somewhere - just in case you want to copy it.
-CF
Arrrrrggghhh! Now I've got Irving Berlin stuck in my head!
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