Blu-ray Copy Protection Hacked: That Didn't Take Long

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

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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