Remember that story about Sony introducing a protection medium called BD+? Well the sly guys at SlySoft have pulled a fast one on Sony. They have managed to crack the BD+ layer, with their latest beta of AnyDVD, namely 6.1.9.6.
This means you can backup your Blu-ray movies and play them without the need for HDCP-compliant equipment. The product also includes a note to Twentieth Century Fox about its assumptions on BD+ and how wrong they were. (The irony, the logo of the product is a fox!)
I fondly remember Sony saying this will take years to crack, well it seems like months to me.
Source here.
Last Updated: November 8, 2007
Burns ZA
November 8, 2007 at 11:34
lol. Format anoraks getting violent. This is beyond funny.
Burns ZA
November 8, 2007 at 11:56
lol. poster posting in the wrong thead. Sad.
JP
November 8, 2007 at 14:15
This can only be good for HD-DVD. hopefully now the remaining studios will give HD-DVD a little more thought.
Abev
November 8, 2007 at 16:12
It doesnt really have any effect on HD DVD, if Im not mistaken those discs were cracked long ago!
JP
November 9, 2007 at 08:42
Poor abev. Disney and fox chose blu because they thought BD+ would be uncrackable. Now there’s no DRM reason to choose blu over HD. It’ll hopefully be up to market forces now.