Blu-ray Disc Copy-Protection Cracked
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Blu-ray disc copy-protection has been cracked again by SlySoft, a company that is well known for producing “ripper” and cloning software.
SlySoft claims that they have cracked Blu-ray’s BD+ encryption system that provides the copy protection on Blue-ray discs. BD+ is a kind of Digital Rights Management (DRM) mechanism that is included in Blu-ray discs put in as an extra layer on top of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) to prevent people from copying distributed content for sharing and reselling. That is content like movies, music and software.
SlySoft’s latest offering called AnyDVD HD boasts several features that it can do to Blu-ray discs. Below are a just a few of the features that affect Blue-rays;
AnyDVD HD Features on Blu-ray copying
- Same features as regular AnyDVD
- Removes encryption (AACS) from Blu-ray Discs
- Removes region codes from Blu-Ray Discs
- Removes BD+ copy protection from Blu-ray Discs
- Watch movies over digital display connection, without HDCP compliant graphics card and without HDCP compliant display.
- The “must have” utility for the serious home theater enthusiast using a media center / home theater PC.
- Includes a UDF 2.5 file ripper, no need to install 3rd party UDF 2.5 file-system under Windows XP.
But BD+ uses dynamic encryption schemes, so if where to be cracked the next production batch of Blu-ray discs will have a new changed copy-protection scheme. Still not enough as it will just create a catch-me-if-you-can effect with crackers like SlySoft.
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