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| Thread ID: 76192 | 2007-01-24 05:20:00 | AACS Cracked! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 518818 | 2007-01-24 05:20:00 | BlueRay and . . . what's the other one? . . Oh, yeah, HD-DVD have BOTH been busted . Digital Rights Management . DRM is as archaic as the entertainment industry's business model, an obsolete technology protecting an increasingly obsolete content medium . So it comes as little surprise to hear that the Advanced Access Content System, Hollywood's latest DRM poster child, has been cracked, and in both of the next generation DVD formats it was intended to protect . An exploit used to partially crack HD DVD in late December has been applied to Blu-Ray with some success . The first commercially available HD DVD player hasn't even been on the market for a year, the first Blu-Ray player, six months, and already the technology that was intended to protect them has been compromised . When will the Cecil B . DeMilles and Jack Warners learn? Wanna read more? Google the second line (in BOLD) and read the rest of the article for urself . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 518819 | 2007-01-24 05:28:00 | When will the Cecil B . DeMilles and Jack Warners learn? They're not dead yet? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 518820 | 2007-01-24 07:13:00 | Not a *partial* crack for HD DVD, it was fully working! There are HD DVDs circulating the 'net now, the first torrent appears to be a movie thats around 19GB in size. Its a fully working crack! Both were done by the same guy, Muslix64! Both share similar code / methodology for obtaining the information needed to bypass the AACS protection. Ive looked at the code for both, including the pre-1.0 version stuff (Although Im not a programmer, similarities arent too hard to pick out) The protection is updatable supposedly, so critics are saying it could be a 'cat n mouse' game with the protectors and crackers waging war... There is also Blu-Ray media now appearing in the world of torrents. I personally like the h.264 codec... and its not like you can compress it down more without losing the resolution. h.264 IS simply the best codec available right now, so if you see the files that're that size, then they're either the real deal or some twat has up-scaled and is trying to pretend its HD video ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 518821 | 2007-01-24 16:12:00 | They're not dead yet? It's a mental condition, not a real-time situation. :nerd: THEY think they're alive, so they are but only in attitude, not technology. Technological advances stopped for them right after sound and color. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 518822 | 2007-01-24 21:23:00 | All DRM schemes are faulty in principle - the bits have to exist in an unencrypted form at some stage. It's only a matter of time before they get broken and the more widespread they become the faster it will happen. I would like to make the point though that the person who supposedly broke this actually used a problem with a software player to do it and also has not provided evidence for either claimed break. Having said this, it's only a matter of time before AACS is fully and regularly broken. It may be illegal in some countries such as the USA and soon Australia to do so but it will happen. Breaks are bound to happen with DRM whatever you do - both the encrypted content and keys are in the hands of an untrusted individual. Once one person does it the content will be circulated illegally. Hopefully DRM will annoy people too much to take off at all. Zoning on DVDs annoyed people enough to render it ineffective (via market pressure) and DRM techniques are much more invasive. This farce will be over in a few years anyway, but it would be good to never have to go there at all. The only thing DRM will do is make pirated content easier to get and use than genuine content. |
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