Blu-Ray's title and volume keys cracked?

Posted Jan 17, 2007 at 10:03AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: Linux
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Blu-Ray cracked? - Image 1Are you guys familiar with HDTVBlogger? Nope? Soon you'll hear praises about the site if this turns out to be true. According to them, the much coveted Blu-Ray disc format has been cracked, and this was done through the PlayStation 3.

We know this sounds interesting and all, but unfortunately, no concrete details were provided. They just mentioned that they've received a number of independent reports regarding this discovery. They added that the exploit reveals the title and the volume keys of a Blu-Ray disc with the help of Linux and with a little modding of the boot process.

We'll just take all of these with a grain of a salt until more concrete details surface. But quite frankly, we believe that this is going to happen anyway. Time and again, hackers have always found their way no matter how secure a system or a format is. It's just that this one happened sooner than later - if this is true.

We wonder now how this would affect the format and its relationship with the movie industry.

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-01-17 10:17:17
ha

its good for me if they hack blu ray and ps3

by - 2007-01-17 10:28:47
I don't think so...

I just got the information that vivid porn cop. as choose to support the Blu-Ray format.And for the crack thing yes they find the codes but they can't copy them successfully....they don't know why.

by - 2007-01-17 10:29:58
Its Bound to Happen..

It will Be Cracked...Sooner or Later,regardless of this Was True or Not. Well i Guess the Movie Studios Dream of Unpirated Format will Never Happen. Good for Us... ;)

by hush404 - 2007-01-17 11:04:01
People are dumb

IF they think there's a format out there that can't be cracked. Crackers/hackers (or w/e you wanna call em) have just as much know how and resources available in the cracking of these codes as the companies who come up with the new anti-piracy protection. It merely takes some time.

by - 2007-01-17 11:38:50
now they need to crack HDMI

And we can thank the PS3 for making it possible. Poor sony, can they do anything right lately?

by - 2007-01-17 12:12:42
dude

this is awesome i love ps3 i love blu ray i love HDDVD but i dont like things i can't bootleg. but you know what i think the size of these formats will hold off the full blown piracy for a while dont ya think.

by - 2007-01-17 12:49:59
wtg ass

ps3 goes the way of the dreamcast, the 2nd best, x360, steals the show just as the ps2 once did STOP HACKIN SONY SO SOON *****S KEEP UR EXPLOITS TO YO MOFO SELF

by Vietone - 2007-01-17 13:37:15
Too bad it will be harder

For Blue-ray cracking one protection isnt enough. Blu-ray and HD DVD share one common protection and it was bound to be cracked on both formats. But Blu-ray has a 2nd type of protection that can always be changed. Therefore the chance of one method of cracking working for all Blu-ray disks is slim while the same cant be said about HD DVD since it only offers one type of protection.

by - 2007-01-17 14:29:06
Vietone ROCKS

He's corect Blu-Ray disk's almost have FW updates lol what will work hacking one wont for another don;t think they will get away with this you know!

by ContrAss - 2007-01-17 16:19:30
how is this good?

who exactly is this good for? and why is this needed? i swear, sometimes it's just best to leave this ***** alone and do something productive other than making hard working people lose money. Even if you save money bootlegging movies and games, you're not exactly helping the industry. frickin asses i say.

by antaeus - 2007-01-17 18:27:44
umm

that has nothing to do with this topic dude, now go back to playing your HaloPlayer 1.5

by - 2007-01-17 19:45:26
Crack Proof..

It is easy to make it crack proof, as long as you don't mind never being able to play it back. They have to hand over the keys with ever disc or player they sell. They have a hard-on for DRM with limited use keys, but even then they'll be handing over keys with every sale, and it'll only be a matter of time before it becomes apparent which part is the real key, and which part is the limiter.

by - 2007-01-17 20:40:54
firmware updates are what's screwing up hackers

it was nice have a set system to work from, but now that movie come with updates built in and from online, it's getting harder and harder. Good thing they put two levels of security in Blu-ray.

by - 2007-01-17 22:10:02
lol

Common Sense you wreak of effort... lol Yeah b/c BR was never going to be cracked, right? Weak Sauce man.

by - 2007-01-18 06:27:07
yeah

Blu-ray isn't what sony wants us to think it is. DRM does not stop piracy it merely makes it harder on honest consumers. And Sony seems to be trying very hard to make the ps3 fail..i swear their pr department could screw up a wet dream.

by - 2007-01-18 09:35:17
WHat the F

The first console to be modded will win the war..... ps2 was modded long befor xbox and guess what happened.. 114 million sold...... happy hacking

by - 2007-01-18 11:09:54
Mustang

Blu-ray still has another protection layer, media water marking. Besides, blu-ray were designed so the compromised keys can be easily revoked.

by - 2007-01-18 15:10:24
Yeeah

I think that watermarking is bull*****... It'd cost RIDICULOUS amounts of money, and render most discs useless with little damage.

by - 2007-01-19 06:00:41
@zz..huh?

360 is already hacked...all u have to do is flash the frimware on DVD drive in 360...and u can find all the iso of games on many torrents...so....WHAT the fudge r u talking about?

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