Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc “volume keys” to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we’re now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the “processing key” used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films.
Let’s break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film — of which there are many — the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far. As arnezami points out, “nothing was actually hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered.”
Againit is like the kid that broke DRM on music CD’s with a magic marker….this situation is about the same. But DRM was SUPPOSED to be more advanced this time around….seems nothing changes but the baseless claims the industry makes about DRM.
HA! Not even a year out the door and already broken.
When will people learn DRM doesn’t work!
you know sometimes hackers are good for something this is one example that and the pirateing of windows vista that was cool.
finally…. i was waiting for something like this now i don’t have to find separate keys