Consumer freedom received a boost this week following the release of AnyDVD HD version 6.4.0.0 from Slysoft, which takes Blu-ray's BD+ copy protection and gives it a swift kick in the groin. BD+ is a copy protection technology developed exclusively for Blu-ray, unlike AACS, which was developed for HD DVD as well. BD+ sits atop a disc that's already AACS-encrypted and performs additional descrambling on the super-safe discs, provided you jump through the required hoops - buy the right graphics card, buy the right TV, buy the right player, etc. AACS was 'broken' in an Internet furore some months back, although the technology is designed such that leaked keys can be revoked, meaning it still has some legs*. BD+, however, has stood largely unscathed, save a bug in the PowerDVD software player that meant it wasn't quite as strict as it should have been. Further, it was claimed by proponents of the technology that BD+ could last 10 years without being broken. But AnyDVD HD - a piece of software that allows HD disc playback without having to use an HDCP enabled monitor link - can now remove the BD+ protection from discs. Users can now backup their Blu-ray to hard disk, and get full-HD quality without using fully HDCP-compliant hardware. And playback doesn't need to be in a commercial package that supports the copy-protection technology. It's all about freedom, people. Currently, only certain titles released by Fox have the added 'protection' of BD+, but others may follow... or not, now that it's been shown to provide no extra security. This development is surely going to have the legal eagles of the Blu-ray camp lining Slysoft up in their sights, but the company is no stranger to legal dispute, having published the infamous and equally user-empowering CloneDVD. Linux users and the 'free' crew will have to wait a while, though. AnyDVD HD is a Windows app, and one that'll set you back around €80, or less, when Slysoft has an offer on (which it does a fair bit), but if your graphics card and CPU is up to the HD task, and you lack HDCP, it may still be the cheaper option, assuming you already have the optical drive, of course. Slysoft's shown it can be done. Whether future BD+ discs will remain breakable is uncertain. Regardless, the news will give other decryption enthusiasts a new rush of inspiration, so don't be surprised if free alternatives for multiple platforms start appearing in the next few months as other people work out how to break BD+. It's a great day for the consumer, and a bad day for the control-freak movie industry. Now could somebody please produce a low-price Blu-ray drive? http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12355
About time this stuff turn up..... and within the next few months blu-ray drive sales will drop hahah and its gonna be like DVD all over again....
i think the protection that was broken only applied to certain movie disks the ps3 is still far from being hacked i believe
10 years they sed, a bit optomistic. hackers tend to be just as quick as developers these days and im sure that any protection will be broken. its just a matter of time but with so many seeking the challenge these days and having the ability it won't be long before the protection is completely dismantled.
dimsum i think it involves all Blu-ray disks BD+ is a copy protection technology developed exclusively for Blu-ray
I just downloaded anydvd6.4 yesterday...thinking, I could use a update to my older version of anydvd was version3.7, didnot know version6.4 can do bd+...hmmm here, in Canada the blue-ray writers are about $400 each, but cannot find a blank blueray disc on sale at any retail stores....arrrrgh: no copying, dang!
haha ps3 games for free? awesome, if i could i would chip the wii i have at home but it doesn't belong to me =[ just a matter of time muahahaha hopefully when they do find this hack hopefully we wont have to do an elaborate process to play these games.....
ye it won't be for another while before blu-ray will get into fashion and blank discs and burners will be freely available, just like dvd rele. but when they are freely available, i believe that they would be completely hacked by then like with dvds lol.
oh fair enough but atm theres no way to run copied, backup disks on ps3, even though i know places where you can go download the ripped games
ye it prob require a chip i would assume, but ppl are uploading ripped games in the event of a chip coming out i reckon.
Spammers aside... No doubt Sony will try to do something to prevent anymore bootlegging, but it's just gonna get cracked once again. Sometimes i wish companies would just forget about copyright technology and let things take their course. But sadly that will never happen. It can only happen within my dreams...
copyright encryption makes it just THAT much more fun...hehehe when I was in high school, not long ago, we have a hacker club where we tried to out-do each other in cracking games and softwares,,, heck, we are upper middle-class kidds with nothing to do after school.
no offence but having a hackers club sounds a bit stupid cos there was nothing else to do. there are always things to do, u just have to create them and make things happen. though it is gd for ppl to hack stuff.it makes companies spend more to find a new form of protection.
