HD DVD and Blu-ray 'processing key' - all HD titles now exposed Options

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HD DVD and Blu-ray 'processing key' - all HD titles now exposed Posted by XanTium | February 13 13:05 EST

From engadget.com: [QUOTE] 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. [/QUOTE] Full Story: engadget.com and doom9.org

[kowrip]

Very nice ! That'll teach them to keep throwing DRM at us. Way to go !

[Illithid]

Lovely news!

[Mike Bowler]

lol is anyone really suprised i expected this all along

[JUANVAN]

While it was expected, the speed that it was done matches that of the release of a Wii modchip.

Amazing

[DMAddict]

LMAO. Let's just hope the prices drop as fast as the hacks have come out.

[ThaCrip]

this is nice and all... but the thing is as of now it dont really matter if hddvd etc can be cracked since it's still far to expensive to backup your hd-dvd's to recordable media anyways.

as far im conserned... standard dvd's are still far better than hd-dvd's are overall.

This post has been edited by ThaCrip: Feb 13 2007, 07:19 PM

[0794]

this is nice and all... but the thing is as of now it dont really matter if hddvd etc can be cracked since it's still far to expensive to backup your hd-dvd's to recordable media anyways.

as far im conserned... standard dvd's are still far better than hd-dvd's are overall.

nobody says that you have to back it up to recordable media...

all the DVDs that I buy only make it to my PC and then are distributed all over the house on my network to every media room...


I am glad to see that these "protection scams" have been cracked so that we can use and protect our purchased media as the consumer sees fit.

[ProphetOfPain]

this is nice and all... but the thing is as of now it dont really matter if hddvd etc can be cracked since it's still far to expensive to backup your hd-dvd's to recordable media anyways.

as far im conserned... standard dvd's are still far better than hd-dvd's are overall.

No offense, but if everyone took your stance on things, we'd be nowhere. Besides, to say standard dvd's are still far better than HD dvd's is really lame, especially if your basing everything off of the cost of backing up and not the technology. Got to pay to play, plus the ability to backup and run the HD movies directly from the hard drive is feasible (to me) and welcomed.

[MickRaider]

Everytime someone says unbreakable these days I always have to laugh.

[DanITman]

this is nice and all... but the thing is as of now it dont really matter if hddvd etc can be cracked since it's still far to expensive to backup your hd-dvd's to recordable media anyways.

as far im conserned... standard dvd's are still far better than hd-dvd's are overall.

Way to think inside the box....

Take a look at a 720p download on your xbox 360 and let me know how big the file is. If they can do so can we.

All HD-DVD have a full 1080p version of the movie on the disk. Soon we will be able to take that 1080p movie and shrink it down to 720p and burn it onto a DL DVD. Bingo, we got a HD version of a movie that looks much better than a DVD and is burned on a normal DVD.

Do you remember when DVD burners were very expensive and we were forced to burn movies to CD and create SVCD. This is the same concept and we will shrink the movies like before.

[the_jepper]

Everytime someone says unbreakable these days I always have to laugh.

the xbox 360 kernel is still not broken though...

it will be broken in time but nobody knows how long it will take...

[DanITman]

Everytime someone says unbreakable these days I always have to laugh.

No one has been successful in breaking DirecTV's encryption on their P4 or P5 cards.

Hackers have tried and still no success. The last time DirecTV was hacked was in 2003.

[Mike Bowler]

i must confess that even though i expected it to be beaten i am impressed with the speed as to which it was beaten.

And to the guy who says its too expensive to backup hd media then perhaps you should consider the fact that it being so expensive to buy the original makes it worthwhile to backup, then at least you'll have your original to re-backup once your original backup gets ruined. And if that doesn't suit you then wait till the prices drop.

[ProphetOfPain]

No one has been successful in breaking DirecTV's encryption on their P4 or P5 cards.

Hackers have tried and still no success. The last time DirecTV was hacked was in 2003.

True, but they started focusing attention on Dishnet and FTA. Same programming, why bother? But I get your point about it. Simply not hacked, but FTA is.