Hackers Break DVD Protection
1.17.2007
Last weekend, a loose-knit coalition of hackers around the world defeated the antipiracy software protecting several high-resolution movies in the HD DVD format. They then began distributing copies of the films — starting with Universal Pictures’ “Serenity” — using BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing tool.
The new intrusions came less than a month after a programmer calling himself Muslix64 announced in a Web forum that he had unraveled at least part of the HD DVD protection system. Muslix64 released free software that allows users to insert HD DVDs into their computers and make copies of those films without the original encryption. However, to make it work, users still needed a special title key, generated by the A.A.C.S. software, for each movie they were trying to copy.
The new DVDs would inevitably be vulnerable to hacking. “Data is inherently copyable, just as water is inherently wet,” he said. “All the technology companies are doing is putting in tricks to make it harder to copy. But all they are is tricks.”
Tks B. Stone
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/technology/17movie.html?
Last weekend, a loose-knit coalition of hackers around the world defeated the antipiracy software protecting several high-resolution movies in the HD DVD format. They then began distributing copies of the films — starting with Universal Pictures’ “Serenity” — using BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing tool.
The new intrusions came less than a month after a programmer calling himself Muslix64 announced in a Web forum that he had unraveled at least part of the HD DVD protection system. Muslix64 released free software that allows users to insert HD DVDs into their computers and make copies of those films without the original encryption. However, to make it work, users still needed a special title key, generated by the A.A.C.S. software, for each movie they were trying to copy.
The new DVDs would inevitably be vulnerable to hacking. “Data is inherently copyable, just as water is inherently wet,” he said. “All the technology companies are doing is putting in tricks to make it harder to copy. But all they are is tricks.”
Tks B. Stone
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/technology/17movie.html?
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