SlySoft Boasts Cracking BD+ Encryption
By Shawn on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 6:08 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Sony, Sony
SlySoft, the company that previously cracked the encryption on HD-DVD now claims it’as completely cracked the BD+ DRM protocol encryption for Blu-ray discs. The developer of DVD cloning software has previously hacked the BD+ virtual machine environment which enabled users to view ripped movies from their hard drives with SlySoft’s CloneDVD software.
Now the company claims that version 6.4.0.0 of its AnyDVD HD program will allow transcoding of Blu-ray video into an unprotected form.
“Admittedly, we are not really so fast with this because actually we had intended to publish this release already in December as promised,” Peer van Heuen, head of High-Definition technologies at SlySoft , said in a statement. “However, it was decided for strategic reasons to wait a bit for the outcome of the “format war” between HD DVD and Blu-ray.
“On top of that, we first wanted to see our assumptions confirmed about the in the meantime released BD+ titles regarding the BD+ Virtual Machine,” van Heuen added. “We are rather proud to have brought back to earth the highly-praised and previously ‘unbreakable’ BD+. However, we must also admit that the Blu-ray titles released up to now have not fully exploited the possibilities of BD+. Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this and await the coming developments rather relaxed.”
This just goes to show that no matter how elaborate the mousetrap, there will always be a smarter mouse.
via ExtremeTech
This is good news for fair use. I personally own the slysoft apps of AnyDVD and CloneDVD. They work well and stay on top of new copy protection. I have backups of all my important DVDs. I hear blu-ray doesn’t scratch as easy as DVD, but having lost several DVDs due to damage by small children, and taking into considering the increased cost of blu-ray discs, I’ll be happy to be able to back up my future blu-ray discs as well.
I have to say that AnyDVD is one of the best pieces of software I have ever bought.