HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc Copy Protection Fully Hacked

A hacker by the name of Arnezami has now found the processing key used to decrypt ALL HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies.

It is no longer needed to use an individual encryption key per title, this new crack provides a media key, a processing key and the volume ID that allow any HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc film to be copied.

SlySoft has announced that the hack is working on a spiritual successor to AnyDVD and CloneDVD that will allow the back-up of any HD DVD movie. Even more, the utility will automatically remove messages such as the FBI warning.

[chopsuey210]

wow that's pretty sad if you spend all your time trying to hack both DVD codes.

[Rooted_Dust]

This guy is going to be a Black Market millionare, if the police don't catch up to him first.

[eclipsegryph]

Yep, that's really something to write home to the parents about.

But I guess some people care more about money than their pride.

[eclipsegryph]

And this is beneficial to consumers and gamers how, precisely? Just what we need, more asshat pirates.

[Silver360]

For all this security scare nothing can be made safe. Just live with the fact nothing is unbreakable. Also there is still another level of security when the HDMI becomes standard

[timmyp53]

news like this kills the videogame industry. These hacks deserve to go to jail.

[fury]

fuk u

[Arkham]

Watch your mouth, fool. Not everyone is a pirate. Some people just respect IPs more than others.

[eclipsegryph]

With a wonderful vocabulary like that, I'm surprised you're not down to a single bubble yet. Here, let me help you. *reports*

[bung tickler]

great i say. stupid movie studios putting restrictions on stuff that i BUY. i should be able to do whatever i was with the media after i purchase it. if i want to rip it onto my computer and stream it to my x360 i should be able to. if i have a HDTV that DOESN'T have HDMI i should be able to watch any movie in full resolution regardless of it being an analog signal. if i want to rip a movie and put it on a portable player i should be able to if i BOUGHT the damn thing. i have well over 200 DVD's and about 10 HD-DVD's, all paid for, not stolen and i use these kind of programs all the time to dump media so i can do as i please with it. IT IS MY RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. anyone who says otherwise is a fool. DRM is the devil and ONLY hurts legitimate consumers. IT WILL NEVER STOP PIRATES. NEVER.

[eclipsegryph]

No, it is not your "right" to perform those tasks you mentioned. It's really quite simple - someone makes something, therefore, they own it, which, quid pro quo, means that THEY set the rules for it, within the law of the land. See how that works? You are but a consumer, and if you think that piracy is somehow justifiable, you are also a stain on humanity. I agree far more with Killer Cop down below than your neurotic diatribe.

[LuminousAphid]

You're an idiot. What he's talking about is not pirating in any way. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be legal to make copies of media if you own it, but people abused that privelage with CD's so now companies have to make it increasingly harder to copy things like that.

A good idea would be to digitally sign movies and require a user to obtain rights to them on their hardware(kind of like the Live marketplace) before they will play. This way copy protection would be a non-issue, because if someone tried to play the disc on a different machine, it wouldn't work (or maybe it would play in SD and not HD). They've been doing this with PC games and CD keys for years (not that it worked a lot of the time; i remember counter-strike would only care if two people in the same game had the same key), so why not movies?

[Killer Cop]

Damn hackers...

@ voluptuary:

Yeah, I also think that all this should be possible. But there is a reason. Set if you where a person who distributed all this you have bought, for free on the net or through friends etc. Thats why we arn't allowed to do this. If it wern't for all those silly people who doesn't wanna spend a few bucks on a movie, we could do this. So, if you are to hate someone; it's the hackers and all people who uses the bought media for illegal purposes.

[Silvia007]

No matter what they do, it's bound to be cracked... I don't care what the engineers say, if the original can be played on a legit player regardless of how much protection it's got, it's going to be cracked because somewhere in that player is the key to unlocking the content. If the key is there, it only takes time to find it. Too bad it's usually much, much sooner then later.

The part that sucks the most though, eventually, to fight piracy, everything is going to be streamed and rented to us users and no one can get a hold of the actual media. Now that would suck some serious balls. I would like to have my DVD's, HD-DVD's, and BR's over streamed media anyday which is why I buy everything I own.

[Black Republican]

I think this should be no surprise to anyone. No matter how hard or time and money any company will put into it, EVENTUALLY everything can be hacked. If PPL can hack operating systems have pirated versions of windows operating systems, and still be able to trick Microsoft themselves that it is a REAL version and be able to download any updated etc.. and the movie industry thinks it wont be hacked
EVERYTHING CAN BE HACKED, SOONER OR LATER IT IS HACKED
every company says it can be hacked but eventually someone does

[eclipsegryph]

... I shall say but one more thing. Just because it CAN be hacked doesn't mean that it should be, or that people should accept it.

You know that there used to be a time when hackers were looked fondly upon? They were simply bright people who exposed computer and digital security flaws so that they could be tightened - not exploited.

[Black Republican]

hey eclipsegryph
I agree with what u are saying,
I also think that u recieved the wrong impression about my message.
in the message at no point do i agree or disagree with piracy or hacking. I am just saying that everything will be hacked sooner or later, wether we like it or not.
personally thinking as a company I would hate piracy, hacking of course, how much money is lost in that millions... and then more security and pain in the ass for loyal users...
but im sure alot of ppl cant say i have never got a burned dvd movie from someone, i have never copied a movie myself, wether it be audio, video, video games, or pc software.

[EnforcerOfTheTruth]

Looks like the movie studios will have to include HDCP sooner than expected...poor HD-DVD addon buyers, no HDMI = no HDCP = no movies

[ApocalypseShadow]

if it gets widespread,then you WILL HAVE TO HAVE HDMI.and so far,360 doesn't have it.microsoft would have to pull another rabbit out of their hat.and a hardware upgrade would be bad for early adopters of 360.

[HaKeRsCanRotINHEL]

cost so damn much, just ask Mr. Arnezami! Pirate scum. :-(

[Bullseye]

Well done, very interesting work.I don't understand the mis-informed attitude of many people on this site. And the idea that the cost of dvd's would come down if there was no such behaviour is naive in the extreme.

[highps3]

So its official. Ps3 will be able to play HD DVD's...

[power of Green]

This problem will some how allow the masses to go out and buy HDTV's with HDMI?, assuming people even care about what internet-console-fan-people care about.

[DJ]

it's about the situation at hand. If HD movie piracy becomes large enough expect to see the studios enforce HDCP way before 2011. =/

[Boink]

most people want to be honest, but will not be ripped off. sure there are some that want everything free, and they will get it. there is absolutely no way for the stop it, no matter what is done, it will be hacked/cracked etc..

If you make a good product at a good price, the bulk of the people will buy it. CD's are a prime example, having to shell out 15-20$ for a whole CD with 1-3 good songs, was a complete ripoff, and thus came mp3's, a lot of people grabbed them for free cause they could get what they want. then when they were finally gave the option to buy songs individually for around 1$, people started doing it. not the cheapskates who want it free, but a lot did. had the music industry accepted mp3's earlier, they could have worked with them instead of against them, and end up failing for the most part.

Movies will be the same, DVD's are now quite reasonable, and people are willing to pay 5-15$ for the stuff they want, but the majority of people will NOT spend 25-35$ to get their favorite 80-90's movies in HDDVD/Blu-ray. It's too expensive, and not worth it. I will certainly never pay that much, and the mediocre(crap) the the studios have been pumping out the last few years is not worth it(with a few exceptions). and if I do want that old favorite in HD, I will look for it and get it on the web(free) until I see it at a good price,

Now you see why MS, amazon and the other digital distribution services are doing so well. no expensive new hardware to buy, no expensive discs, no risk in which format war to take sides on. and people get the same movie in beautiful HD.

Sony and Toshiba will be the ultimate losers for not making a unified format, servs them right that they are both cracked so quickly.

[Havince]

games and DVD s have been copied for years, mainly because the selling price is far higher than the production cost, this is no different.

I nipped into local gamestore last week and saw HD movies for £25 and they were releases of films that were old such as hellboy.............25QUID !!!!!!!!!! christ knows how much Blu Ray movies will be.

Its just something that happens

[Close_Second]

I personally consider that if you buy the media then you should be able to back the media up for you own personal use. I use backups in the car or around the house and lock the originals away from my kids. If the originals were to get stolen or heaven forbid, fall to DVD rot do you think they will be replaced by the manufacturer or insurance company. Hell no!

Basically, I will pay for it once but not twice. If it comes down to a showdown then I will simply stop buying DVDs and just rent them.

[Stretchystrong]

You guys do realize that most hackers hack these types of things to prove it is not unbreakable right? Not every hacker is out there to make a buck. Some just like the credit they get from the hacker community.

[NextGen24Gamer]

via hdmi....that would hurt the sales of their blu ray movies and hd dvd movies. Right now, less than 5% of ALL tv owners have hdmi on their sets. This year is the first year that Most HD tv's have hdmi built into it. That would mean that "Everyone" would have to buy a new 1080p tv with HDMI to watch blu ray movies or hd dvd movies. That alone would kill the HD movie market instantly. Annalyst figure by 2010...40% of television owners will have hdmi inputs on their tv. Thats why they figure by 2012 they would implement the block for analog and make it to where you have to use HDMI.

P.S. IGN reported a while back that MS confirmed that the output from the xbox 360 is indeed a digital out. It gets converted to analog since when they launched the 360 back in 2005 there wasn't ONE 1080p tv on the market. So they couldn't do the proper testing...to implement hdmi that early. But, with that said, MS confirmed as well that they could make a digital adapter/cable that would be for use with the exsisting 360's. They stated that they would sell it when the market called for it. I personally would like it "NOW"...but I realize that less than 5% of HD tv owners today have hdmi with 1080p. But, I'm one of the small few and I want one...We shall see. I predict just prior to the ps3 launch in Europe.