HD DVD Copy Protection Hacked
The HD DVD format has been hailed by its makers and supporters that it will be a revolution in anti-piracy, having unbreakable copy protection called AACS encoded into each disc. But this has been circumvented by hackers who have made copies of HD-DVD films for the first time.
However, last month a video was posted on the internet by a hacker who claims that it shows a HD-DVD being copied onto their computer, they used legal software for watching DVDs on PCs to obtain the anti-piracy key and then proceeded to copy the DVD files to their hard disk. Watch the vid from YouTube: HD-DVD uses exactly the same copy protection as the Sony Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray has an option for an additional layer of protection but it is not widely used on discs yet. Recently a video was posted on YouTube showing a backup copy of a Blu-ray movie being sucessfully played on a PC - View Article & Vid >> Is it possible to make unbreakable copy protection? Link: HD-DVD Copy Protection Hacked - http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/21056.html Email this story to a friend  Add this link to:            
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