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    HD-DVD/Blu-ray already hacked!

    AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
    http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/
    Can it be? Is Hollywood's new DRM posterchild AACS (Advanced Access Content System, see more here) actually quite breakable? According to a post on our favoritest of forums (Doom9) by DRM hacker du jour muslix64, his new BackupHDDVD tool decrypts and dismantles AACS on a Windows PC. Just feed the small utility a crypto key (it comes bundled with keys for a few popular HD DVD titles, with the promise of more on the way), and it'll dump the video right off the disc onto your hard drive, supposedly playable in any HD DVD compatible player. If true, this would instantly become the DeCSS of high def optical (where you at, Jon?), as AACS is the copy protection scheme used not only by HD DVD, but by Blu-ray as well. Code and source posted in read link, let us know what you find!Note: We're working on testing this ourselves, we'll report back with our findings asap.[Thanks, Max and Adam]Update: Well, it definitely does something. Click on for some pics and our experiences using the app.


    The news has spread across the net like wildfire! A DRM hacker from the famous doom9 forums has reported making a tool that backs up AACS encrypted content to the local HDD in unencrypted files. The only current downside is that unlike DeCSS, you have to have a tag file that has unique keys for each movie, so it's not a universal thing. Yet. Anyway, expect the $200 xbox 360 HD-DVD drives to fly off the shelves after this announcement.

    Engadget has verified part of the claim already, namely that the tools can strip content off an HD-DVD and that the file compare does say the original and copied versions are in fact not the same, but they have not been able to test playback yet.

    Jammrock
    Last edited by Jammrock; 28 December 2006, 07:29.
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    adding copy protection schemes and saying that they are "secure" is like waving a flag (the collor don't matter) in front of an already pissed off bull

    It will end in disaster
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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