Both Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD DRM Broken
February 13th, 2007 by jamesFrom Boing Boing:
Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the “processing key” from a high-def DVD player. This key can be used to gain access to every single Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disc.
Previously, another Doom9 user called Muslix64 had broken both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD by extracting the “volume keys” for each disc, a cumbersome process. This break builds on Muslix64’s work but extends it — now you can break all AACS-locked discs.
AACS took years to develop, and it has been broken in weeks. The developers spent billions, the hackers spent pennies.
Just goes to show… if you build it… they will crack it! DRM doesn’t work. Period. Anything can be broken. Think of all the money that could’ve been spent making better movies that instead went to making sure pirated copies wouldn’t appear online. And pirated copies will still appear online. In full HD quality as well. How about providing this content in an easier to acquire manner and for cheaper than currently can be purchased at the store if you want less people to pirate your content? Oh wait… that’s far too obvious and simple. A technical solution will not solve a social problem. Will they ever learn?
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