Blu-Ray Copy Protection Breached

[OhioChick]

Source: Information Week

A West Indies company says it has defeated the BD+ DVD copy protection scheme, which was thought to be virtually impenetrable.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
March 24, 2008 05:05 PM


The second line of defense to prevent Blu-ray discs from being copied has been breached: SlySoft, a software company based in Antigua, West Indies, said last week that its AnyDVD HD 6.4.0.0 disc copying program can now "make backup security copies of Blu-ray discs protected with BD+."

The first line of defense for Blu-ray discs, the Advance Access Content System (AACS) copy protection scheme, was defeated in late 2006. Efforts to keep the 32-bit AACS processing key off the Internet failed spectacularly in 2007 when foes of copy protection schemes posted the sensitive number in a variety of forms on Digg and other Web sites.

The technology behind BD+ was developed by Cryptography Research and sold to Macrovision in November 2007. BD+ is supposed to serve as a secondary layer of protection to prevent Blu-ray disc content from being copied.

In the July 8, 2007 issue of Home Media Magazine, Richard Doherty, a media analyst for the Envisioneering Group, said BD+, unlike AACS, wouldn't likely be breached for 10 years.



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Another DRM Obstacle Gone.

[bemildred]

1. Tsk. How embarrassing.

And yes, "who could have predicted this?"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. If only we had known the seat number, the flight # and the date they

planned to breach BLu-Ray, we could. . . .

never mind.

[aasleka]

3. utorrent X sly soft + alchohol= $$

[AX10]

4. That could not have been very hard to do, seeing that...

this is Sony that we are talking about.

[OhioChick]

5. Makers of the root kit. n/t

[onehandle]

6. I'm glad that Blu-Ray won the format war, but it's too late.

I, for example, am the primary demographic for the latest and greatest technology.

But I do not plan to invest in Blu-Ray for two reasons:

1) Up-converting DVD players are pretty damn good and look great on my 65" HDTV. So my standard DVDs look great.

2) Video upon demand, such as Apple TV, delivers HD programming at the touch of a remote into my home.

And now you'll be able to steal (not me) HD right off the Internets.

Sorry Sony. Just a little too late.

[elocs]

7. Yes, and the Maginot Line was the impenetrable defense that would protect France.

Now how did that work out?

[Xenotime]

8. Isn't this ilegal? Surly they can track it.

[bean fidhleir]

16. Why would cracking the code be illegal? It's in the public interest.

It's also a form of speech, if anything is. And, of course, the crackers are in the West Indies, not the USA.

[Lasher]

9. Hmmm. Wonder when DVD Shrink will incorporate the capability

Works great up to DVD+R DL (8.5 GB) and it's free.

[noel adamson]

11. DVD Shrink was shut down by legal action as was DVD Decryptor I believe.

You can still find the last versions they released around the internet but I don't think they are new ones...

[Lasher]

13. I'm running version 3.2.0.15, which is from 2004.

So you might be right. It runs fine with Vista though, and you can still download it from the internet.

So if Shrink isn't going to be developed any further I'm sucking swamp water, thinking I might eventually see a new version that will work with my Blu-Ray burner. I might even have to break down and pay for some software.

Thanks.

[Texano78704]

10. I thought...

that this had been done a while back. DVDFab is but one program that you can use to rip Blu-ray DVD's.

[frylock]

12. slysoft is teh r0x0r!!1

i lurv their stuff. i can watch my aussie copy of cow & chicken thanks to anydvd.

[DeSwiss]

14. If you build it they will come....

...and take it apart piece by piece.

[JCMach1]

15. The old business models are DEAD: Free the DATA!

I just wonder how long it will take DVD makers to figure out that ad revenue is the way to go... DVD's and BLURAY may ultimately become the NEW TV.

[gasperc]

17. Yeah, but my debit card will NEVER be cracked

what, 330 sports bras, excuse me.

[taught_me_patience]

18. Damn this sucks

more piracy in the future, I guess.

[Solon]

19. More freedom as well, now I might be able to play Blu-Ray disks on my linux box...

with MythTV functionality. Similar to what DeCSS did for DVDs.