Analyst Says Blu-ray DRM Safe For 10 Years

Mike writes to let us know that a poster on the AVS forum says that the latest issue of HMM magazine (no link given) contains a quote from Richard Doherty, a media analyst with Envisioneering Group, extolling the strength of the DRM in Blu-ray discs, called BD+. Doherty reportedly said, "BD+, unlike AACS, which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10 years." He added that if it were broken, "the damage would affect one film and one player." As one comment on AVS noted, I'll wait for the Doom9 guys to weigh in.

Re:That's the article...

[Kesch]

As an AC noted:

A link to a forum that quotes a magazine quoting a guy... something doesn't seem right here.

There's a lot of quotation involved here.

And...

[Icarus1919]

*queue Mortal Kombat* Test your might... MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!

Re:That's the article...

[RedWizzard]

Like Kesch said:

As an AC noted:

A link to a forum that quotes a magazine quoting a guy... something doesn't seem right here.

There's a lot of quotation involved here.

There is indeed a lot of quotation going on.

Oblig.

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Install forum software on server.
2. Create most disgusting looking skin ever.
3. Post links to random shit that will make people argue on news aggregation sites.
4. ???
5. Profit!

The DVD is UNCRACKABLE

[snowraver1]

"With this CSS we are putting on this DVD, noone will EVER be able to copy dvds" - Some CSS guy

Re:That's the article...

[XxtraLarGe]

Like Kesch said:

As an AC noted:

A link to a forum that quotes a magazine quoting a guy... something doesn't seem right here.

There's a lot of quotation involved here.

There is indeed a lot of quotation going on.

Indubitably! There's too much quotation going on around here!

MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

A friend of my cousin's roommate said they read a comment on the wall of a bathroom at an Ohio rest stop that said you should mod the parent comment up.

An obvious typo

[ian_mackereth]

"BD+, unlike AACS, which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10 days."

There you go, fixed that for you.

Probably not

[blhack]

What it seems like they would be talking about here would be something similar to PKE. Err, no wait that doesn't make sense, must be something like what is used in prox cards with challenge/response...hrm...not that probably isn't what it is.....OH I KNOW! every disk comes with a monkey that kicks you in the balls every time you get the disk near a computer!!

Unfortunately, this alienates most of the Chinese player manufacturing market. But it does have the bonus of coming with a free monkey.

Lets make a movie starring the DRM monkeys and then post it into the intertubes! This would send an inverse monkey (also known as a something awful member) past the event horizon, causing the entire twisted fucked up backwards universe that the movie industry lives in to collapse upon itself!!!
FREE MONKEYS FOR ALL!

The makings of a decent /. poll

[benhocking]

So far on this thread 3 dates have been suggested: 10 days, 2 weeks, and 10 weeks. This sounds like the beginning of a /. poll...

How long do you think it will take for Blu-Ray DRM to be cracked?

• Less than 10 hours
• Between 10 hours and 10 days
• Between 10 days and 10 weeks
• Between 10 weeks and 10 months
• Between 10 months and 10 years
• Didn't you RTFA? 10+ years!
• CowboyNeal doesn't buy DRM-encoded material, you insensitive clod!

Re:famous last words

[Anonymous Coward]

Naw, DVD Jon's busy playing with the iPhone [nanocr.eu] so it might be three weeks.

What the article didn't say...

[CaptainPatent]

...Is that was a statement made 9 years, 11 months and 28 days ago!

The blogger quoted actually had a very keen insight that not only would sony introduce a new standard... but that it would be called BluRay and that the DRM scheme on it is set to be cracked in 3 days!

Re:The makings of a decent /. poll

[CastrTroy]

Missing option:

I already cracked it. I'm just waiting for them to release something with BD+ so I have something to decrypt.

Missing options

[benhocking]

It wouldn't be a /. poll without missing options!

Re:2, 4, 6 8...

[Anonymous Coward]

What is this guy smoking?

"If you see an apartment in a rough part of L.A."...

We may not know what this guy is smoking, but we know where he bought it.

Re:self referential

[Anonymous Coward]

So this is not really a *true* \. post...

Au contràire, mon ami, it may not be a /. (slashdot) post, but it is a fine \. (backslashdot) post.

Backslashdot: the slashdot from bizarro world! Where GNAA members are white and manly, there are no dupes, CowboyNeal is respected and most posts are insightful!

Re:famous last words

[Junior J. Junior III]

Get some cute chick to blow me while I hack and I bet I can crack that shit open in less than a minute.

Break BD+ ? Inconceivable!

[martinX]

Do you know just how smart the guy who invented BD+ was?

Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons.

1011010010 days sounds about right

[davidwr]

10 years is 1011010010 days, including 29 Feb 2008. That sounds about right.

Can't be cracked by a ten year old

[caffiend666]

It can't be cracked by a ten year old. We have it in writing now! Quick, look for 9 year old Math PHDs.... All it takes is a hammer and that Blue Ray Disk is cracked up... Seriously though, there's nothing about that piece of plastic which means we can't figure out how it works. Taunting people like this just speeds up the process. Weren't these the same people who used a DRM scheme which crashed MACs and could be defeated by a sharpie?

Re:That's the article...

[andymadigan]

The NSA isn't licensing that yet.

Re:That's the article...

[woodchip]

You know what would be freaky... A slashdot article quoting a slashdot article. It wouldn't just be a dupe, it would be a recursive dupe.

Re:That's the article...

[DontScotty]

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris HACK DRM at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

Re:That's the article...

[NormalVisual]

Can I quote you on that?

Re:Reminds me of...

[Poltras]

Dark Helmet: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate." (Spaceballs 1987).

OMG I didn't know there was so many spaceballs.... I just saw the first one.

yeah this is karma burning night

Re:That's the article...

[a_nonamiss]

Keep on with your jokes, funny-man. We know where you live.

Oh, and I'd keep a close eye on your dog, Rusty, for the next few days. We've noticed some irregularities in his stool.

Re:In other news...

[slaker]

HD-DVD has:

Serenity

HD-DVD wins and it's not even close.

Re:It's not really just an encryption scheme, thou

[ahoehn]

Seriously Mr. Stephenson [nealstephenson.com], isn't it time you registered for a Slashdot account?

Re:That's the article...

[shannara256]

Thank you, Simone.

...Fry?

Re:famous last words

[compro01]

Bah... they keep rolling it out... and teens keep breaking it. Why do they bother?

because the DRM makers have said that this new stuff is really, really impossible to break! for sure this time!

*starts stopwatch*

Re:famous last words

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad he's from Norway and lives in the US nowadays.

Re:famous last words

[LKM]

I hope you're the dude who wrote the specs for the Blu-Ray DRM. If you are, I have a feeling it will be cracked soon.