DVD Security Group Says It Fixed Flaws

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The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs say they have come up with a fix to stop hackers from unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Digital rights management protection, or DRM, is intended to prevent copying of the movies. Hackers working late last year and early this year were able to observe computer code found on the PC-based DVD players and discover keys that unlock protections on all high-def discs, so copies could be made.
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Steve said:
The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs say they have come up with a fix to stop hackers from unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.
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Funny, when I click on the link, I get an article about SanDisk partnering with Yahoo Music.

But to stay on topic --for every "fix", there are numerous people with the willingness and intelligence to figure out how to "break" that fix. I have yet to see a promise made by the content industry that the hacking community cannot break in time. And trying to tighten down further, and then issuing a press release to that effect, is just waving a big red flag at the bulls of the hacking community. The only ways that can make a product truly unbreakable will also make it truly unusable to Joe Consumer.
 
Umm.. didn't they say that last time? :p

Why don't they stop wasting money trying to make it uncrackable, and make it affordable?
 
AACS want cracked so there is nothing to fix. The software players were the problem and nned to be fixed so people can't see the keys stored in the system memory.
 
I'm with jmackay, they are wasting their money, which of course, will passed on to the consumer in the price of players/content.. They will crack this "fix" and the next..

I understand that they want to protect their content, they deserve to get paid, but, well, they are doing a piss poor job..
And spending a lot of time/money in the process.. They already have enough protection in place to prevent the average consumer from making backups.. The hard core pirates and the commercial pirates will beat them at this game...

It quite literally is a case of sending my sister out onto the field by herself and thinking she can beat last years super bowl winning team at a game of football.. It would be painful to watch in a sickly satisfying way.. :p
 
How ignorant can someone really be?

Sure, they can be one step ahead of the crackers...for a week...then DRM cracked...then back to development to find a way to fix that flaw...then again, one step ahead of the crackers for a week...another flaw found...DRM cracked...and on and on...
 
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How ignorant can someone really be?

Sure, they can be one step ahead of the crackers...for a week...then DRM cracked...then back to development to find a way to fix that flaw...then again, one step ahead of the crackers for a week...another flaw found...DRM cracked...and on and on...
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I would like to add to that (no edit button).

If it can be played at all, it can be copied.
 
Nothings impossible to crack. As long as theres a will theres a way ;). Look at nintendo's gamecube discs. They were practically uncrackable until the midrange of its life then now everyone can practically modchip their gamecube and play backups on dvds. Nothing is impossible. With something as big as dvds and HD/bluearray dvds, theres bound to be ways to unlock everything. The more people the stuff is avaliable to, the more prone it is to being cracked and hacked.
 
Before forced to download new patches every week for my software DVD player is a good business model.
 
Sure it will get cracked, but it hasn't been cracked so far. What we saw was a software issue.
 
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