HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken

[gabrielh]

That was fast!

"According to an article at BoingBoing, the processing keys for the AACS encryption scheme used by both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray video discs have been extracted, and a crack has been released. What this means is that there is now a method to extract the copy-protected content of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc out there. This is different from Muslix64's previous crack, which only extracted the volume key for each disc. This new method bypasses this step and allows anyone to extract the data without first requiring the volume key."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1724238
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13...hddvd_bro.html

[Lefein]

BD+ may still throw them for a loop

[DontKnowMe]

That has been known for about a month now.

[Besieged]

I think this just means a quicker death to HD-DVD. Because BD has the watermark protection requiring players to read this mark. Where-as pirating groups can stamp out as many HD-DVD disks as they want (which doesnt need a watermark).