Posted on 29.12.2006 at 22:35 in Tech News by Martin
This is a nice message for all creators of protections for games or any other software: For months, we’ve heard how bullet-proof the new Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is. This is the system used in Blu-ray and HD DVD discs to protect content stored on disc from illegal duplication. Well, one user has reportedly found a way to decrypt discs protected by the system now and is offering this program for download via the Internet. Someone must be pretty mad out there, spending months developing something which was cracked in few days.
Late yesterday, a user called Muslix64 posted a vague methodology description on a Doom9.org forum. That user also included a link to a YouTube video he’d created, and uploaded a version of his BackupHDDVD software–described as a Java-based command line utility–to RapidShare.com. His approach includes supplying both the volume key and title key in order to decrypt AACS-encoded disc titles. Although there wasn’t many people who confirmed this method really works, almost all servers reported it - Either this user will be gaining a whole lot of notoriety for claiming this feat; or, a whole lot of net fame as DVD Jon experienced it with cracking DVD protection. Why not to get rid of all protections anyway? They are only making lives of these honest people buying software for real money much harder…
This is a nice message for all creators of protections for games or any other software: For months, we’ve heard how bullet-proof the new Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is. This is the system used in Blu-ray and HD DVD discs to protect content stored on disc from illegal duplication. Well, one user has reportedly found a way to decrypt discs protected by the system now and is offering this program for download via the Internet. Someone must be pretty mad out there, spending months developing something which was cracked in few days.
Late yesterday, a user called Muslix64 posted a vague methodology description on a Doom9.org forum. That user also included a link to a YouTube video he’d created, and uploaded a version of his BackupHDDVD software–described as a Java-based command line utility–to RapidShare.com. His approach includes supplying both the volume key and title key in order to decrypt AACS-encoded disc titles. Although there wasn’t many people who confirmed this method really works, almost all servers reported it - Either this user will be gaining a whole lot of notoriety for claiming this feat; or, a whole lot of net fame as DVD Jon experienced it with cracking DVD protection. Why not to get rid of all protections anyway? They are only making lives of these honest people buying software for real money much harder…
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