Making backup copies of movies you purchase on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs may have just gotten a little easier. Just a few months after members at the Doom9 forums uncovered a way to extract individual volume keys that allow you to decrypt the AACS copy protection for individual movies, it looks like they've found the holy grail: a processing key used on every disc.In other words, ripping a high definition disc just became almost as easy as ripping a DVD. In the short term, you can probably expect to see an explosion in high definition films torrents available online. In the long run, we can only hope someone will wrap this hack into a nice little GUI and create an easy high-definition disc backup utility that anyone can use.
[via EngadgetHD]
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2-13-2007 @ 12:51PM
keeves said...
I think it can be assumed that someone WILL, probably in the coming couple of months, make a GUI to allow for the easy copying of all current HD and Bluray DVDs, and this development will only make that more likely. However i can guarantee that both companies will be working this second on alterations to the encryption method to make it harder to copy the disks.
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2-13-2007 @ 3:42PM
ecalc said...
Slysoft.com has the AnyDVD HD in beta right now. It's rather nice already. PEACE.
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2-14-2007 @ 5:34PM
nez said...
You know, this is a double edged sword. Because of the cracked AACS I speculate that both formats will become even more restricted with DRM and "fair use.
Although I can't imagine it getting more restricted. They call it Digital Rights Management, but the consumer doesn't actually have many rights even when they purchase the film.
It's actually becoming very similar to purchasing a computer with windows OS or even Xbox, where you don't actually own the software, you are only licensing it.
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