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[PSUs]| Wednesday 24th January 2007 |
Blu-ray DRM cracked
12:15PM, Wednesday 24th January 2007
The hacker who cracked the AACS copy protection on HD DVD discs has now circumvented the similar system on the rival Blu-ray technology.
Known only as muslix64, the hacker successfully read the unique key that is used to encrypt a Blu-ray disc's movie content. Strictly speaking he has not cracked AACS as such, as each disc has its own key and decryption requires a separate key for each movie. In this case Lord of War was decrypted and saved as MPEG-2 files.
Muslix64 has posted a software tool that others can use to decrypt other titles.
The cracking of Blu-ray was not unexpected, given that the AACS system is shared by both formats, although implemented in slightly different ways.
The HD DVD crack was revealed at the start of the year. An HD DVD appeared on BitTorrent file sharing networks a couple of weeks later.
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