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Universal exploit discovered for HD media?

updated 05:00 pm EST, Tue February 13, 2007

All HD media cracked?


While one hacker was able to break DRM on select Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs, Electronista reports, another hacker now claims to have defeated HD movie encryption entirely. Writing in the popular Doom9 forums, "arnezami" says he has uncovered the processing key behind AACS, the protection scheme used by both Blu-Ray and HD DVD. As a result, any HD movie should be unlockable without first having to locate the volume key for a particular title. The news could prove enormously disappointing for the movie and electronics industries, which together have spent millions of dollars attempting to prevent the piracy currently rampant with standard DVDs. A universal exploit tool is likely to be released within the next few months.


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  1. l008com

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    02/13, 05:12pm | report spam | Reply |

    sweet

    i can't wait

  1. mgpalma

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    02/13, 05:15pm | report spam | Reply |

    Just give it up

    DRM is so not worth it. You CANNOT create unbreakable copy protection. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  1. climacs

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    02/13, 05:33pm | report spam | Reply |

    we need new laws

    obviously the studios haven't thrown enough lawyers and lobbyists at the problem.

  1. Andy Cotton

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    02/13, 06:34pm | report spam | Reply |

    yeah great

    yeah great, more money into the pockets of sleazy criminal syndicates pushing drugs, trafficking s** slaves, indulging in mass spam and credit card fraud. All so you losers can not pay somebody else for all their hard work. A lot of movies lose money and out goes the jobs of all those actors, wranglers, carpenters. Don't hide behind the so called wealth of studios. You are stealing from hard working people just because you can. as Steve would say, Bad Karma.

  1. frankt1950

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    02/13, 07:44pm | report spam | Reply |

    say what Andy?

    According to the comment by Andy Cotton above, if I make a backup copy (for my personal use) of a movie I have purchased I am guilty of, or encouraging the following terrible things:

    "more money into the pockets of sleazy criminal syndicates pushing drugs, trafficking s** slaves, indulging in mass spam and credit card fraud."

    What the h*** are you talking about and what kind of logic are you using to come to those conclusions? Also please show me how my copy of a movie causes massive unemployment. If you're going to be a DRM shill please do it subtly and intelligently. Creating a backup copy of a digital product you legally own is considered fair use.

  1. Gorloth

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    02/13, 08:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    The Media

    Good I'm glad to see it being cracked. They fight for supremecy, BluRay vs HD DVD, it's only a storage medium. I often make copies of HD programing from Satellite. I just put them in H.264 and put them on a hard drive for later playback. Alot cheaper than $40 a pop for blank Blu ray disc's. When I tire of watching I delete the media file.

  1. macnorway2000

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    02/13, 09:52pm | report spam | Reply |

    Get real

    The bootleggers copy the disc as it is - including the DRM, CSS, Macrovision etc. Those Hong Kong and mainland China pressing plants are churning out exact copies - because those discs work in players.

  1. ppayne

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    02/14, 01:05am | report spam | Reply |

    Yes, but

    Frankt1950, we all know, or do know if we think about it, that most of the people hoping for BD or HD-DVD to be broken will in fact be downloading HD movies from the net, and not making personal backups. I mean, I use backups of software all the time, such as my OS X installer or other important things, but I've never had or needed a valid reason for a backup of my DVD movies.

    Which isn't to say that the two companies don't deserve to be hax0red because of their amazing greed. Just please don't pretend that you're trying to paint this as a backup-my-own-discs issue.

  1. Andy Cotton

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    02/14, 06:22am | report spam | Reply |

    get real?

    real is a culture which says that "you have spent a lot of time making something, and It's ok to copy it because I think you have more money than I do". Nobody "needs" a backup copy of a movie on DVD. Nobody pressed new vinyl copies of LP's. If you want a backup then buy another copy. Don't steal it and share in a culture of freely transferable full res content that ultimately raises prices for everybody else. The hacking tool leads to huge volumes of movie content streaming across the internet via ptp. If you use the tool or even support it you support the whole dishonest thing.

  1. macbones

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    02/14, 06:56am | report spam | Reply |

    get real

    Copy protection should go to the sh-t can. Since we went to mp3's & AAC, we've spent $800- on digital content / over 3 years. In the 10 years preceding that, I spent less than $100. That's because my inerest has been stimulated. Not that I don't have quite a few, "unprotected" tunes. In fact, half the time I buy the cd from amazon for better qualitly. I hate this Cotton guys argument. Amazing that a lot of these people think that if DRM was iron clad, people would BUY all the music they have in a digital collection. Just not going to happen. Those lost dollars they are counting never existed.

    Cassette tapes were supposed to be disaster for the industry, and weren't, the industry grew. In fact I'm sure all the different forms of recordable media are seen as a threat, yet the industry goes on. Does this Cotton guy think that the music industry would be were it is today if there had never been a CD or cassette tape? If they were still spitting out media on copy protected vinyl? The cat is already out of the bag on most digital music. Guess what, between the Iraq war and the college campus (collections of young people- the real "social") there are millions of hard drives floating around with 50,000 songs on 'em. Get over it. Right now people would download more digital content if it weren't locked down with a DRM. That's just a fact.

    Point in case. I can make what- 5 copies of a playlist from iTunes. Well, some folks I know like to make a CD every christmas, of their favorite songs, and give them to friends. Sure, that really doesn't constitute "fairuse" but a lot of those folks discover, and look into music/ artists they may never have purchased. So having content out there certainly sounds better than locking it up in a vault.

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