Blu-ray's "unbreakable" BD+ has been cracked!

[Shawn]

http://sandbox.slysoft.com/beta/SetupAnyDVD6196.exe

6.1.9.6 2007 11 07

* New (Blu-ray): AnyDVD ripper copies BD+ titles
* New (Blu-ray): Removed "BD+ not supported" warning, as all available BD+ titles can be copied with AnyDVD ripper, or can be watched on HTPC without HDCP using PowerDVD 3104 and AnyDVD. Reports indicate, that burned BD+ titles work on PS3 and standalone players as well.
* Note to Twentieth Century Fox: As you can see, BD+ didn't offer you any advanced security, it just annoyed some of your customers with older players. So could you please cut this crap and start publishing your titles on HD DVD? There are thousands of people willing to give you money.
* Note to people considering to invest in HD media: Please buy HD DVD instead of Blu-ray. HD DVD is much more consumer friendly (e.g., no region coding, AACS not mandatory). Don't give your money to people, who throw your fair-use rights out of the window.
* New (HD DVD & Blu-ray): Support for more MKBv4 titles
* Some minor fixes and improvements
* Updated languages

Text

Gotta love it.

More info:

BD+ is the name given to an experimental Digital Rights Management (DRM) mechanism that will be included on BD-ROM discs. The Blu-ray Disc Association was forced into providing this extra layer of protection following pressure from Fox. The HD DVD group did not agree to provide Fox with such a DRM over AACS. The fears about BD+ surround the possibility of studios like Fox theoretically being given the power to restrict Mandatory Managed Copy (a system that allows users to make digital copies of movies and send them around a home network).

 

[xtknight]

I thought they (Doom9 and Co.) had gotten even BD+ cracked months ago or was this AACS only?

 

[Shawn]

This was AACS only.

 

[Queasy]

So much for 10 years...

 

[ponyo]

So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Queasy
So much for 10 years...

Yeah. It only took them a month.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

HD DVD was cracked a year ago.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

Yes. HD DVD was cracked long ago (relatively speaking) when AACS was cracked.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

09-F9-11-02-9D... etc.

 

[BW86]

:thumbsup:

 

[Goosemaster]

mmm..it's still warm...

 

[ponyo]

I had no idea HD-DVD was already cracked. Well, that kills my hypothesis.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

09-F9-11-02-9D... etc.

Doesn't ring a bell.
Perhaps if you posted the whole thing rather than posting a few and going "...etc", I might recall it.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

09-F9-11-02-9D... etc.

Doesn't ring a bell.
Perhaps if you posted the whole thing rather than posting a few and going "...etc", I might recall it.

Text

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

09-F9-11-02-9D... etc.

Doesn't ring a bell.
Perhaps if you posted the whole thing rather than posting a few and going "...etc", I might recall it.

Text

I know the code.
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Lothar
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

I don't see why it would. Everyone knows what "09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0" means.

 

[Inferno0032]

Being a noob about this stuff. How are these things cracked and what does cracking them actually do? And what does the hex code do for you? And was finding this code considered "cracking" it?

 

[Throckmorton]

Now Sony just has to change it right?

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Lothar
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

I don't see why it would. Everyone knows what "09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0" means.

I seem to remember a post the Anandtech Moderator during the fiasco stating that anyone that posted it directly, but I think people bypassed the loophole by posting images or doing along the line of "09adf9ad11", etc...

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

You don't remember the Digg fiasco?

09-F9-11-02-9D... etc.

Doesn't ring a bell.
Perhaps if you posted the whole thing rather than posting a few and going "...etc", I might recall it.

Text

I know the code.
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

IF PCMagazine was willing to start an editorial page with it as the heading, I think we just may be beyond that point.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Lothar
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

I don't see why it would. Everyone knows what "09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0" means.

I seem to remember a post the Anandtech Moderator during the fiasco stating that anyone that posted it directly, but I think people bypassed the loophole by posting images or doing along the line of "09adf9ad11", etc...

It was also a bannable offence to even mention my name, but that has changed.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Lothar
I thought posting it here automatically resulted in a vacation...

I don't see why it would. Everyone knows what "09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0" means.

I seem to remember a post the Anandtech Moderator during the fiasco stating that anyone that posted it directly, but I think people bypassed the loophole by posting images or doing along the line of "09adf9ad11", etc...

It was also a bannable offence to even mention my name, but that has changed.

hmmm...it's still warm...

 

[JackBurton]

The MPAA just got punched in the face....AGAIN!

 

[mrrman]

Originally posted by: Naustica
So have they cracked HD-DVD yet? Because if not, this means Blu-ray will win the format war.

highly unlikely