HDDVD and Bluray completely cracked?


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Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" -- all HD titles now exposed

Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc "volume keys" to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we're now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films. Let's break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film -- of which there are many -- the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far. As arnezami points out, "nothing was actually hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered." All he had to do was keep an eye on his memory, watch what changed, and voila... the processing key appeared. So kick back and watch the trickle of HD titles hitting the torrents quickly turn into a flood (at ~20GB a pop, that's not an exaggeration) when the BackupHDDVD and BackupBluray utilities (or AnyDVD HD) are updated to reflect the new hack find

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/hackers...g-key-all-hd-t/

- For people who understand the mumbo-jumbo :shiftyninja:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866

They are ripping the copy protection apart :laugh:

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You know I am on 2 sides of this one. I honestly want to say congrats and great job to this person for doing it, but at the same time, you know 99.9% of the people that will be using this to download HDDVD's are doing it without ever owning the original, and that's just sad

You know I am on 2 sides of this one. I honestly want to say congrats and great job to this person for doing it, but at the same time, you know 99.9% of the people that will be using this to download HDDVD's are doing it without ever owning the original, and that's just sad

That can be said of lots of things, e.g. P2P, used for commercial products, but pirates use it as well, doesn't mean it's a bad thing though.

Both Apple and Yahoo! has now said they don't like DRM too, maybe 2007 will be known as the year when the tide of DRM turned. *dramatic music* :rofl: :p

More like cue the Star Wars "Empire Strikes Back" theme :devil: .

Scirwode

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