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Blu-ray And HD-DVD Copy Protection Fails |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Blu-ray, CT Magazine, Exploit, gaming accessories, Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba
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German magazine CT have found a pretty simple, yet effective way to copy both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc media. Although Blu-ray and HD DVD are supposed to be highly secure, using both AACS and HDCP copy protection in order to ensure that you cannot simply copy media from a disc, the German computer magazine CT found a much easier, crude way to get around the copyright protection. It was so simple it must have been overlooked by Sony, Microsoft and other next-generation DVD manufacturers.
The exploit in the copy protection meant that you could copy media using the print screen function on a computer, copying each frame individually. This may seem too crude to actually work but of course you wouldn't sit there pressing print screen manually, it wouldn't take a genius to create a program that would capture each frame using print screen. However, this flaw in the system will be fixed. CT magazine contacted Toshiba in order to notify them of the problem, and later versions of Toshiba's HD-DCD players will protect against this flaw. And Sony - I guess they'll take the hint!
Via I4U
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I'd say to copy Just use VCR less quality but easy
then upload the recorded film to the web
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I mean, just look at the average comments section on this site. For every 1 intelligent comment, there are 45 dumbasses who are wasting the rest of the world's oxygen. That said, tapping into the power of these idiots would prove quite fruitful.
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meaning, you build a security wall, someone will find away to get past it. Regardless of what you do. There will always be kids out there seeing it as a challenge to break the coding or break the security of things. See all those Game Copy Protection's out there. Tell me that someone will not break your "fool Proof" copy protection. It may slow them down a bit, but they will break it.
So, who cares, put on the best you got, and hope they don't break it in a matter of minutes.
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hackers will always have the last word, and anyway you surely noticed sony said the psp was supposed to be impossible to hack, well devhook and firmware 1.5 users think different lol. Nothing can totally block hacking BUT a completly closed environment, but we are always evolving to free environments, so hackers will always win, this is normal.
So just stop this kind of post.
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Wrong.
AACS won't be used untill 2011, it requires HDMI 1.3 to work.
And games will use different data protection than movies, which for now, are pretty much betas.
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can we not make back up copies of HD-DVD and Blu-ray?....
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Vecha, Microsoft intend to let you copy HD-DVD to your hard drive on Vista, for viewing with MS Media PCs. Although, I would not call this backing up due to the amount of security protection on the copied version. But it will allow you to stick your HD-DVD in the shelf so it wont get scratched everytime you use it. Sony are dead against this practice coming to Blu-Ray.
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CURSE YOU GERMANY!
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But for now, we got these jerks turning around and saying to the manufacturers, "Hey, we found away around the encryption you're using to render nearly 3-million HDTVs useless with. Wanna know how?"
ARGH!
Oh well, in another couple of years, someone else will find a way to make 1:1 copies of HD content. I'm not too worried, just pissed.
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For every piece of copy-protected material that comes out, why not just program a "viewer" that poses as a dvd-player or other related software but really just dumps the material to your hard-drive.
The exploit is fundamentally built into the thing's purpose.
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LMAO who would think of trying that anyway
I'd say to copy Just use VCR less quality but easy
then upload the recorded film to the web
This can be done but the whole idea of Blu-ray and HD DVD is to be in HD. DVDs are still going to be around for the next few years so you can keep copying them.
I would say that I will be purchasing more films since you can hardly download a HD film
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