Sunday, May 6, 2007

HD-DVD and Blu-ray are cracked?

Holidays - hot it is time for Hollywood. New films are bought up as hot pies, know only have time to count up profits. However somebody Muslix64 has spoiled a holiday major, having cracked AACS, the system protecting HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks from copying.
Here that happens, when to the fair buyer do not allow to make a copy of not less fairly bought film. Certainly, it is possible to return to shop and to try to demand money back, and it is possible to break protection against copying simply. The second way was selected by somebody Muslix64 - it managed to find a gap in system of protection HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks - Advanced Access Content System. In general it not completely protects disks from copying, it only "adjusts" - on what devices they can be lost, and on what - are not present. And on what conditions. Computer drives often get in a category "are not present".
Muslix64 " It is indicative has cracked " titles Full Metal Jacket and Van Helsing, and also has published a part of an initial code exploit. It is more than details promised to give already one of these days. For AACS cost Walt Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Toshiba and Sony - in general the company systems rather representative and interested in successful work. And, that the most interesting, developed AACS both adherents HD-DVD, and admirers Blu-ray - the industry has shown rare unanimity when speech has come about protection 24 billion market of DVD-spears. Representatives of this " mighty… " yet have not confirmed the fact of presence of vulnerability, but have declared carrying out of own research.
Foreign experts converge in opinion, that Muslix64 has really found vulnerability in AACS and it really allows to bypass the restrictions imposed by the publisher of a disk including to remove unlimited quantity of spears. However, and Blu-ray it will be reflected in the general course of fight HD-DVD hardly probable - both of a format are protected by one version AACS, means both are potentially cracked. Though, it is possible in short-term prospect HD-DVD will be more popular in the "advanced" users - Muslix64 "practised" with disks of this format.

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