D-Bone
Dec 28th '06, 01:04 PM
Reports are circulating that the AACS content protection system shared by both Blu-ray and HD DVD has been cracked. None of the sites reporting this information have confirmed the crack, however, and our own investigation suggests that this is not a full working crack at this time. From the available details, the hack appears to only address AACS encryption, which means that Blu-ray would not be fully crackable using this method, as it has additional forms of DRM.
The crack was announced on the Doom9 forums, where user muslix64 revealed that his application "BackupHDDVD" would strip encryption from HD DVD discs. Details are very scarce, and we've had only limited time to investigate this matter. Here's what we've found, so far.
Read More: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061228-8510.html
The crack was announced on the Doom9 forums, where user muslix64 revealed that his application "BackupHDDVD" would strip encryption from HD DVD discs. Details are very scarce, and we've had only limited time to investigate this matter. Here's what we've found, so far.
Read More: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061228-8510.html