AACS DRM Hacked! :o

[cHodAX]

Spotted this over at xbox-scene.com and thought I would post here, apparently a well known hacker has broken then AACS system which is used on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. It means that these discs can now be ripped and backed up.

The full story is over at Engadget...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/

...if true then Hollywood is gonna be pissed, they expected that system to last 10 years.

 

[Basic_X]

hahahaha. those anticopy attempts never fail to amaze me

 

[Gamah]

rofl owned.

 

[Overdriven]

Saw it on FH General... So I have to say..


OLD! (For me atleast)


It's pretty funky what people can do though, especially as it's meant to be 'unhackable'

 

[Raven]

owned

 

[Naffets]

If its coded by man it can be uncoded

 

[Congax]

haha, lol

 

[DocWolfe]

They can change the key or something so its pretty useless at the moment.

 

[psyco]

If its coded by man it can be uncoded

iirc, the WW2 code machine(enigma) is still unbroken - or the best code yet, i forget

 

[enkor]

enigma was very much broken - american sigaba machine on the other hand was never broken by an enemy before being retired afaik

 

[Ara]

Anticopy is funny stuff, every company working their hardest to prevent piracy, while everytime someone breaks the code, and in the end it affects the customer(just look at any EA game, so full of anti piracy it becomes a pain to even play the game and update).

Its a problem yes, but instead of working against it they should offer something new to the customers, that the pirated version cant get and is still appealing. Or just offer it in a easy (semi cheap) downloadeable version, with no hassle. I know that wont prevent piracy but alot would actually pay for it this way. Maybe they should make every Sp game like a mmorpg, requires a key with registration to play ;p

 

[cHodAX]

They can change the key or something so its pretty useless at the moment.

Nope, they can revoke the key but only via a firmware update. They can change it for new discs but the only after the revoke the old keys and make new ones. During that time every HD film available will be ripped and once it is ripped it can be watched anyway Far from useless

 

[Litmus]

iirc, the WW2 code machine(enigma) is still unbroken - or the best code yet, i forget

actually, i think it has been broken, but only very recently. Think i read something on BBC news... ill try find the link

 

[psyco]

enigma was very much broken - american sigaba machine on the other hand was never broken by an enemy before being retired afaik

saw it on a program about WW2/Communications, cant be more than a year old... weres your source?

it was the one with jeremy clarkson, inventions that changed the world : Telephone
iirc he said 'even till this day it remains un cracked'
that said... why would you need to crack it once its retired... spose for fun

Maybe they should make every Sp game like a mmorpg, requires a key with registration to play ;p

but then you would need the internet while you play, for some thats not an option, but yes... completely useless for DVD's though

have you actually ever tryed to registrar a game? the amount of stupid q's they ask you!

 

[Nate]

i heard vlad done it

 

[Tilda]

Just a thought, but why dont the put a "burning" laser into the drive, then when you get your new dvd you pop it in, and it burns your consoles number in it. If you try to play it anywhere else it won't work?

Or do an iTunes and require internet verification to play stuff.

 

[Gamah]

i heard vlad done it

Dog sex?

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

Just a thought, but why dont the put a "burning" laser into the drive, then when you get your new dvd you pop it in, and it burns your consoles number in it. If you try to play it anywhere else it won't work?

Or do an iTunes and require internet verification to play stuff.

That'd be shit, you wouldn't be able to watch dvd's or play games at a friends house or anything :< Weren't they going to do that with Ps3 discs or someting?

 

[psyco]

saw it on a program about WW2/Communications, cant be more than a year old... weres your source?

it was the one with jeremy clarkson, inventions that changed the world : Telephone
iirc he said 'even till this day it remains un cracked'
that said... why would you need to crack it once its retired... spose for fun

nvm mind this, i watched the royal varioty lecture today... said it was cracked before

though they said enima was the germans... i ment the british one... used for phone calls between hoover(i think) and Churchill

 

[enkor]

saw it on a program about WW2/Communications, cant be more than a year old... weres your source?

among others, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

 

[soze]

enigma was very much broken - american sigaba machine on the other hand was never broken by an enemy before being retired afaik

From what i remember frim school the enigma machine used by German U Boats was never cracked during the war, the brittish captured a Enigma machine which was used during the war. So i think the enigma retiered un cracked as stealing a machine dose not count as cracking the code imo.

 

[Neffneff]

From what i remember frim school the enigma machine used by German U Boats was never cracked during the war, the brittish captured a Enigma machine which was used during the war. So i think the enigma retiered un cracked as stealing a machine dose not count as cracking the code imo.

Some polish chap came up with some method for reading coded enigma messages in the 30s, but it took people along time to decode each message.

then somewhere around 1940 they built COMPUTERS!!! that would decode each message in about an hour or so.

but from what i remmber, enigma changed many times over. getting solved, and then getting vamped up, then solved again, etc etc.

 

[soze]

Some polish chap came up with some method for reading coded enigma messages in the 30s, but it took people along time to decode each message.

then somewhere around 1940 they built COMPUTERS!!! that would decode each message in about an hour or so.

but from what i remmber, enigma changed many times over. getting solved, and then getting vamped up, then solved again, etc etc.

Yeah that was why it was meant to be so good as soon as they know the code was being read they changed the coding or something thats why getting the machine helped so much as they could just play with the machine till they got the right code i suppose.

I will not disagree that it was craked though i was just saying that from what i remember in scholl it was considered un cracked till they got the machine.