DVD Copy Software

Blu-ray and HD-DVD appear to have been successfully cracked. The crack has a processing key from a high-def DVD player and was posted on the hacker web site Doom9 by the poster known as Arnezami. This key can be used to access every Blu-ray and HD-DVD disc.

Another hacker from the same site, Muslix64 had cracked the Blu-ray and HD-DVD by extracting the disc volume keys for each disc. Arnezami built on Muslix-64’s work but now allows a hacker to break all AACS-locked discs. This means that AACS, which took years to develop, only took weeks to break at the cost of pennies where the developers spent millions to create.

Digital Rights Management, (DRM), needs to be airtight to work and this means that every single product needs to perfectly hide their keys completely for DRM to actually work. There has to be no possible way to to get to the guts of the code to retrieve the cleartext or keys while it’s playing back. One single mistake and a hacker is in.

What this means is that there is likely no way that a DVD will be perfectly free from the ability to copy it. Is there a way that the industry can do business and not worry about anti-piracy copying of their work, and still earn a living? It is getting easier and easier to copy these discs and they will likely be even easier. The only way that the industry will be able to make a profit is if there is a huge cost to buy the disc in the first place. This means essentially that the honest people who buy the non-pirated DVDs will be paying the price for the hackers pirated movies.

Crack published on a hacker forum for both, the Blu-ray and the HD DVD discs

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