smokin5s Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 It's been sunny all day... ...in Dublin/Worthington atleast. DOH! it was crappy this morning... I hadn't been outside since about 8am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Cracking encryption on HD DVDs is a big deal. Seeing as the Movie industry is going to be royally pissed at this. If there is no encryption on the DVDs that means you can copy them to your computer. If you don't understand the problem around this then you need to level up your interweb skills. Read here about the "Digital Boston Tea Party" http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/05/02/digital-rights-management-tech-cx_ag_0502digg.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffmeden Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 It is important to remember... oh hell, who am I kidding? This shit isn't important at all. Anyway, it's important to remember that this is just ONE key used in the AACS system that protects HD-DVD, and all future dvd releases will simply exclude this key. Hence, any decoder using this key will be broken. What does this mean? If the dvd player they pulled this key out of was the one you bought, you now own a future-proof paperweight. In the long run, it will mean players will have to incorporate more expensive means of protecting their decryption system, and thus will cost more to purchase. The loser? consumers, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Just tell me that Any DVD and DVD Copy now support blue ray / hd dvd copying and I'll be happy. These two work great on 99.9% of DVD's now. I'm a simple guy, point, click, copy, done. I'll buy a blue ray/HD player once the media can be copied/burned. Otherwise, no thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Its a vendor specfic not really device specific. But yes it will get fixed. But now that people know how to extract it from memory they will find ways. This time they did not use debuggers but next time they might have to. so the next key hack might not be "DMCA" sanctioned. I know allot of people have made backups of dvds or used dvdripper/dvdcopy or any program like that. Those programs use this type of technology. DECSS might have been allot less complex but the concept is the same. How would you like it if you bought a music cd you could only listen to in some players. OHHH WAIT THE RIAA has already done that one on some cds. How about a car that could only be driven on yellow roads. and to buy the yellow paint citys had to pay more. Fair Use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Just tell me that Any DVD and DVD Copy now support blue ray / hd dvd copying and I'll be happy. These two work great on 99.9% of DVD's now. I'm a simple guy, point, click, copy, done. I'll buy a blue ray/HD player once the media can be copied/burned. Otherwise, no thanks. This is the mechanism that will make that possible. Just like DECSS was the mechanism for those programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 It is important to remember... oh hell, who am I kidding? This shit isn't important at all. Anyway, it's important to remember that this is just ONE key used in the AACS system that protects HD-DVD, and all future dvd releases will simply exclude this key. Hence, any decoder using this key will be broken. What does this mean? If the dvd player they pulled this key out of was the one you bought, you now own a future-proof paperweight. In the long run, it will mean players will have to incorporate more expensive means of protecting their decryption system, and thus will cost more to purchase. The loser? consumers, of course. Once companies understand this following statement then no one will lose out on anything. "If a human programed it then another human can reverse program it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Copy protection does not stop pirates it makes the legit uses more diffcult I agree with that 100%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farkas Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 It was bound to happen just like everything else that has been cracked.. big fuckin' deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 and all this time I thought the forbiden numbers were 4 8 15 16 23 48. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 and all this time I thought the forbiden numbers were 4 8 15 16 23 48. 69 is the forbidden number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 with throne posting that key up on a public forum doesnt that open CR to legal issues??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 with throne posting that key up on a public forum doesnt that open CR to legal issues??? SHHHH its just random hex numbers anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin R. Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 with throne posting that key up on a public forum doesnt that open CR to legal issues??? I just got a call from my lawyer for posting here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 doubt it. not enforcable anyway. all posts here will bea around for years as they are very likely archived on servers around the world for many years to come, so even if you delete the post today, it will likely ahve been captured by a system somewhere and googlable the next day. with throne posting that key up on a public forum doesnt that open CR to legal issues??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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