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HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Cracked?

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The race between the media suppliers and the media underground distributors may soon heat up on the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray front.

Seems that the processing key to unlock ANY DRM protected HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc has been found.
As explained below, this is a bigger chink in the DRM armor than just being able to pull individual files - it is a universal hole.

Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc "volume keys" to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we're now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films. Let's break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film -- of which there are many -- the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far. As arnezami points out, "nothing was actually hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered." All he had to do was keep an eye on his memory, watch what changed, and voila... the processing key appeared. So kick back and watch the trickle of HD titles hitting the torrents quickly turn into a flood (at ~20GB a pop, that's not an exaggeration) when the BackupHDDVD and BackupBluray utilities (or AnyDVD HD) are updated to reflect the new hack find.
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sandgk;754493; said:
The race between the media suppliers and the media underground distributors may soon heat up on the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray front.

Seems that the processing key to unlock ANY DRM protected HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc has been found.
As explained below, this is a bigger chink in the DRM armor than just being able to pull individual files - it is a universal hole.
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That's crazy. That is actually more incentive to get a Blu-Ray player. 35 dollars for a move is ridiculous.
 
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I agree wherever there is a lock there will always be a key. There is actually a youtube video of the 2 responsible of cracking it, it was pretty funny and the FreeBird playing in the background was quite amusing...lol

Companies are fighting losing battles, the RIAA is having trouble even prosecuting people downloading (in fact I can not thing of a single case that has gone to court been in favor of them) and actually are having counter suits against them and working.

What does this all mean... Companies has to think way outside the box here, it really is a paradigm shift but if they want to make money they need to adapt to the times. But this is another discussion all by itself for sure :-).
 
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