Blu-Ray, HD DVD protection already cracked!

[Gerard_Dirks]

One skilled hacker is already claiming to have defeated copy-protection measures built into new HD movie formats, which were originally designed to stem piracy efforts. A poster in the Doom9 forums says that an application he's developed, BackupHDDVD, bypasses the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encryption found on both Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs, allowing PC users to copy movies directly to their hard drives. The software is currently in a rough state that only supports a handful of HD DVD titles, according to Electronista, but shows that AACS is functionally similar to CSS -- the encryption for standard DVDs that was broken by 'DVD Jon' Lech Johansen in 2002. Johansen himself predicted that AACS would be rendered useless by the end of 2006.

[xanadu]

Also mentioned here:-

https://www.satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58481

[3tv]

i wouldnt say aacs is cracked, its more of an exploit to get the keys out of memory. kinda like how wma/wmv drm keys are extracted.

[Ragnarok]

yep thats the case at the moment. ACCS has the potential to recover from this hack too like a sat countermeasure. may the games begin!!