Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack 307
Google85 writes in with a brief Enquirer piece reporting on an announcement on a German site that SlySoft claims to have cracked BD+, the extra copy-protection layer in Blu-ray. Here is the German original.
doom9 (Score:5, Informative)
Slysoft is GOOD STUFF (Score:2, Informative)
But I wanted to take this opportunity to say how great Slysoft's software is.
I tried at least half a dozen pieces of "free" software trying to rip DVDs and re-encode them to
I plied all the forums, downloaded endless codecs and other whosit and whatsit pieces here and there and could never get it to work. So much for "open source".
So I laid out $80 to Slysoft. One package to rip the DVDs, and one package to re-encode them into a variety of formats (I use
I'm a big Slysoft fan now.
translation (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Slysoft is GOOD STUFF (Score:3, Informative)
The more recent versions have made it a bit less "mac-like" (ie. they added a whole lot more configuration options), but it's still dead-on simple to use.
non-machine translation (Score:1, Informative)
Fourth version of AACS has been cracked.
The Producers of the copying-tool "AnyDVD", Slysoft, released a new Version of their software. It can now cope with the new version of AACS and is expected to also copy Blu-ray-discs protected by the supposedly uncrackable "BD+".
Ever since April 2007, the Copy-protection-committee AACS LA revoked keys for movies and drives after they had been compromised. The cat-and-mouse game was supposed to end with the version "MBKv4" - the fourth version - which changed the keys. Slysoft now told us that version 6.1.9.3 of AnyDVD can also decrypt MBKv4-DVDs. The company claims to have successfully tested it with the HD-DVD "The Transformers", the top-selling HD-movie in the US, and also with the Blu-ray-versions of the Spiderman trilogy.
Apart from the usual sneering in the press release ("one might almost feel sorry for the poor movie industry guys") SlySoft chief executive Giancarlo Bettini also used the company's success in cracking the copy-protection to call out against it: "I wonder how long it will take for people to understand that increasing restrictions, pressure and protection measures that stop things from functioning don't mean more, but instead less revenue."
According to Bettini, even the "BD"-protection of Blu-ray players, which uses a virtual machine in the player, has already been cracked. The software is already running and there is little work left to create the according tool. Bettini expects the tool to still be published in 2007. However, according to German law it is illegal to use software that circumvents copy-protection measures.
Re:Just cracked? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Problems (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How to translate MPAA claims. (Score:5, Informative)
The article makes no claim that this has been cracked.
In other words, the BD ROM-Mark is not intended to stop access to the encrypted movie, it is intended to stop someone from duplicating the original disc without decrypting it all.
Re:So i guess if true (Score:3, Informative)
Re:keeping people in a job... (Score:3, Informative)
About the same number that I have seen smoking weed (or offering to sell me weed). It seems the law isn't making much of a difference. It will happen no matter the legal status. The only difference is a few bad decisions with weed can easily send them in the wrong direction due to the so called justice system. The same bad decisions with alcohol are more likely to get someone killed (still not honestly that likely) but less likely to screw the survivors up for life. Again, this has nothing to do with the effects of the drug, but is based on the screwy way society treats their use.
Were weed legal for adults and a misdemenor for minors (even if a felony for adults to sell to minors), it would probably cause less problems than alcohol.