djc
03-24-2008, 11:39 PM
Last week, SlySoft announced that it had definitively cracked the extra layer of DRM that helped make Blu-ray more popular with the studios than HD DVD. The company announced in a post on its forum (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=14786) that the new version of AnyDVD HD (6.4.0.0) will allow users to make "backup security copies" of Blu-ray discs that use BD+
As we noted in our HD DVD post-mortem (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-3things-hd-dvd-coulda-shoulda-done-to-be-a-contenda.html), BD+ was one of the reasons that the studios eventually turned to Blu-ray as the HD optical format of choice. The AACS DRM used on both HD formats was cracked (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070213-8837.html) relatively quickly, so the studios put a lot of their hopes on BD+ to preserve the sanctity of the Blu-ray format. Not long after BD+ was certified (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070620-blu-ray-content-protection-agency-certifies-bd.html) in June 2007, one of its developers boasted that it wasn't likely to be cracked "for 10 years."
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When will 'they' learn? Everything can be cracked.
As we noted in our HD DVD post-mortem (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-3things-hd-dvd-coulda-shoulda-done-to-be-a-contenda.html), BD+ was one of the reasons that the studios eventually turned to Blu-ray as the HD optical format of choice. The AACS DRM used on both HD formats was cracked (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070213-8837.html) relatively quickly, so the studios put a lot of their hopes on BD+ to preserve the sanctity of the Blu-ray format. Not long after BD+ was certified (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070620-blu-ray-content-protection-agency-certifies-bd.html) in June 2007, one of its developers boasted that it wasn't likely to be cracked "for 10 years."
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When will 'they' learn? Everything can be cracked.