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Thread ID: 112694 2010-09-18 07:55:00 Pfft! Who needs Blu-Ray? The Error Guy (14052) PC World Chat
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1138018 2010-09-18 07:55:00 Huh! who need bluray these days? now we have RED ray!!! complete with 4k support
www.red.com
The Error Guy (14052)
1138019 2010-09-18 08:30:00 And on related news, the master key for Blu Ray has been discovered.

hardware.slashdot.org
bob_doe_nz (92)
1138020 2010-09-18 08:47:00 What a joke -- I know of several people who copy Blu-Ray discs, so called copy protection - HA!

I Was actually at a guys place today, and he was making a "backup" :rolleyes: copy of a Blu-Ray movie he rented earlier on to a blank Blu-Ray disc.
wainuitech (129)
1138021 2010-09-18 09:04:00 Security and copy protection is a fail these days. nothing is safe unless you refuse to release it.

They need to make CopyProtection more software based, now that the hardware is cracked old hardware is screwed. no chance of an update otherwise new disks won't work on old players (backup time?)

Ah well such is life!

Some games like MW2 did it well. it is pretty much sealed up now. after release it got a bit beat up with several cracks but they are all fixed.
The Error Guy (14052)
1138022 2010-09-18 09:11:00 What a joke -- I know of several people who copy Blu-Ray discs, so called copy protection - HA!

I Was actually at a guys place today, and he was making a "backup" :rolleyes: copy of a Blu-Ray movie he rented earlier on to a blank Blu-Ray disc .

Some of the older keys were leaked to the web . Caused a fiasco on a content aggregation site . ( . nytimes . com/2007/05/03/technology/03code . html?_r=1" target="_blank">www . nytimes . com)
bob_doe_nz (92)
1138023 2010-09-18 09:39:00 Kind of backwards IMO. Usually optical media has been developed when a laser capable of reading the density is developed.

It went infared, red, green, blue, now we're back to red? Hmm.
ubergeek85 (131)
1138024 2010-09-18 10:25:00 Security and copy protection is a fail these days. nothing is safe unless you refuse to release it.

They need to make CopyProtection more software based, now that the hardware is cracked old hardware is screwed. no chance of an update otherwise new disks won't work on old players (backup time?)

Ah well such is life!

Some games like MW2 did it well. it is pretty much sealed up now. after release it got a bit beat up with several cracks but they are all fixed.
Not quite, BR players can easily be upgraded to run a new copy protection while still allowing the old one.
plod (107)
1138025 2010-09-18 12:21:00 And on related news, the master key for Blu Ray has been discovered.

hardware.slashdot.org that slashdot article is very poorly written - HDCP has nothing to do with bluray. HDCP is the copy protection for restricted HDMI feeds.

While most bluray players are capable of outputting an HDCP-protected stream, this has nothing to do with the bluray standard, and the biggest impact is in fact on HD cable & satellite feeds.

For those interested, the bluray copy protection scheme is AACS.

:pf1mobmini:
Erayd (23)
1138026 2010-09-18 12:39:00 Must you take the fun out of everything? bob_doe_nz (92)
1138027 2010-09-18 20:53:00 Not quite, BR players can easily be upgraded to run a new copy protection while still allowing the old one.

Yes BUT if they can still play the old and the new then is extremely easy to extract the new key from the descriptors or software could be used to trick the players firmware into believing it was an old disk therefore allowing the disk to be ripped.

If I did it would give each disk a nice bit of firmware that copied to the Bluray player internal mem to check security (using a similar method to 360 disks so its hard to tamper with) once the disc is verified as signed then the drive "unlocks and allows the disk to be played
The Error Guy (14052)
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