HD-DVD & Blu-Ray Hacked ... With Finality

WRXWagon2112 · Post by **WRXWagon2112** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:59 am

Anonymous, do-gooder hackers had already found a way to uncover the individual keys for next-gen DVD titles, but this new hack- er, "find" allows a user to backup their HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc without knowing the key for that particular title:

Linky McGee

Engadget article wrote: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.

--Alan

zaxrex · Post by **zaxrex** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:16 pm

Turns DRM into "Doesn't Really Matter"

Post by **complacent** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:53 pm

zaxrex wrote:Turns DRM into "Doesn't Really Matter"

hahaha, nice one!

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:30 pm

zaxrex wrote:Turns DRM into "Doesn't Really Matter"

ZING!

Post by **Sabre** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:49 am

I'm so glad this has happened.... eventually we might actually get fair use again without the need for this...