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Hackers Pull One Over on Blu-ray Again

When anyone talks to movie studio executives, the first reason they give for turning to Blu-ray is copy protection. But now that the latest attempt by the Blu-ray Disc Association to stop hackers has failed, is that claim valid anymore?

According to reports, the latest Blu-ray copy protection known as BD+ has been cracked by a group that has long been known for its ability to disable protected media. The group claims that its newly updated AnyDVD software is capable of circumventing all attempts by Blu-ray discs to stop users from copying movies or ripping them onto a hard drive.

decapitator6301d ago

It never ends and like someone suggested, Sony should not worry about this too much because the winner or the best tech is always subjected to scrutiny from hackers.

Sayai jin6301d ago (Edited 6301d ago )

Your right, but you know Sony. You do not get bigger than MS and Sony when it comes to anti-piracy,hacking, etc. They spend althis money trying to deter or make their products hack free, but in the end it is superficia. But they have to gie the effort or they would potray that they have givin in.

yesah6301d ago

true but, many movie developers, will want sony to do soemthing about it. And Sony should.

Lucreto6301d ago

I doubt it was easy as well but who knows maybe BD+ still has a trick up its sleeve but if i doesn't it sure was a long time for it to be hacked.

With the format war over people can't say that fox will go neutral.

decapitator6301d ago

They sure do. They can release a patch and fill in that security hole but guess what ? ... The hackers will go at it again and probably be successful.

Lucreto6301d ago

It will still be a while before they can take advantage of it as BD rewritables are still expensive not talking about the drives and they will need big hard drives to keep downloading movies. My computers are slow and it takes 30 mins to transfer files a 1gb file and off the internet nearly an hour so I won't be able it copy 30gb movie for a while yet.

kewlkat0076301d ago

DVD's, oh how fast technology moves...

Boink6301d ago

it's like CD's vs mp3's all over again, wonder how this will end?

MorganX6301d ago

Given the size of the files required to maintain HD quality and sound, I don't think it's fair to compare BD to MP3, CD, or even DVD. It's going to be awfully hard to move the files around easily. Now we're talking a few gigabytes, instead of DVD quality at 700k-900k.

Also, the find formats that work best at these resolutions with full fidelity sound are not commonly use. I'm sure Sony's not happy, what happened to Music and DVDs won't happen to HD Audio/Video for some time.

Even if we get the bandwidth, the percentage of users who can afford it the first few years will be negligible to piracy.

Does sound good for your backing up your own movies.

TrevorPhillips6301d ago

hackers stop tryin to hack everything you always end up failing just get over it and get a life will ya

giovonni6301d ago

thats the reason why I disagreed with you, hackers are always going to be hackers, and find loop holes in all things. As far as them failing, I think they are pretty successful in that department. The biggest danger right now for blu ray, and you can disagree with me all you want, but the biggest danger is bootlegging of blu ray movies this early in its life cycle. As specially, if the movies hold the same quality of a blu ray dvd priced at almost 30 bucks and works on all blu ray drivers.

Sayai jin6301d ago

Hackers almost always prevail. Sometimes it does not even tke super smrt hackers. Remember when Sony spent millions of dollars on anti-piracy tech in CD's or DVD's ( I cn not remember which one) and soeone deafeated that high end tech with a felt tip marker.

supaflypriest16301d ago

hackers all ways end up failing?? What did i miss something??? How are they failing CD's can be burned, so can DVD's and so will Blu-Ray... Its just a matter of time.

Sarick6301d ago

No the easy one was them defeating the protection in Windows OS's by turning off auto-run

For the most part it was holding down a button when you inserted a CD.

I also remember Sony getting sued for installing root kits in some of their CD's as well. It was something I'm not to fond about them doing.

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mighty_douche6301d ago

(Currently) Hacking BR is futile.

1. Not many people are interested in downloading a 20gb movie of torrent.
2. If ripping and burning is your piracte of choice, not enough people have adopted BR drives for their PC yet.
3. Price, a blank 25gb BR disc costs about £1 less than a BR movie.

Obviously over time this is gonna change, but right now, BR shouldnt need to be overly worried by this news.

kn6301d ago

That's not exactly true, M.D. Blu-Ray 25 gig 2x recordable can be found for $10 or less if you shop around. 500 gig hard drives can be had for around $100 which would fit 25+ full-length blu-ray movies on and stream them from media center. I, for one, am looking forward to being able to (legitimately) download hi-def movies...

yesah6301d ago (Edited 6301d ago )

Sony cares about the future and if they face the problem head on now it'll be better then later.

Kakkoii6301d ago (Edited 6301d ago )

mighty_douche: Your forgetting about Game Piracy.

Hackers have worked hard to create a way to burn and play PS3 games. And have been successful. There's already a way to dump, burn and then play PS3 games.

And with games, The game data is never filling up the whole disc. Dummy files are put on the disc to fill the rest of the disc. But if you crack the disc you can extract those dummy files and greatly reduce the size of the ISO. So the download would take a lot less time.

The biggest PS3 ISO I've seen so far was Devil May Cry 4. And it was only 7.87GB.

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AMD CEO Shares Vision Behind Xbox Partnership and Next-Gen Chip Roadmap

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Obscure_Observer2d ago

AMD is really building hype around their unique partnership with Microsoft to help and build an advanced and seamless Xbox ecosystem across all Xbox consoles and devices.

I wonder what she meant by "full roadmap of gaming optimized chips" though? Seems ambitious.

Next year´s Xbox Showcase already looks promising and exciting. Here´s hoping they deliver.

InUrFoxHole2d ago

They had best show 3yrs in a row. Heading for another

VenomUK1d 20h ago

Obscure_Observer said “I wonder what she meant by "full roadmap of gaming optimised chips" though? Seems ambitious.” To me, I interpret this to mean rather than having a couple of X/S products for launch and a handheld there is a longer term plan to release new products with higher specs at timed intervals. I’m speculating of course, but this could mean a spec bump every year or two, so that even if the PS6 or Steam Deck Home is released a year after ‘Xbox’ Microsoft can release an updated model that has a higher spec.

Agent751d 10h ago

But Microsoft forgot the games.

KwietStorm_BLM1d 15h ago

It's X3D chips for console. Everyone knows this. And it's been rumored in the PS6 forever.

Ganif1d 13h ago

Correct.

"Sony's PlayStation 6 reportedly will feature an AMD semi-custom APU with a Zen 5 CPU and UDNA GPU, capable of 4K 120FPS and 8K 60FPS gaming. The console will include X3D cache and advanced AI upscaling technology."

https://www.tweaktown.com/n...

Obscure_Observer1d 10h ago

"It's X3D chips for console. Everyone knows this. And it's been rumored in the PS6 forever."

I doubt that AMD´s CEO would waste her time making this huge and important partnership announcement over a tech that will be 7 years old by the those next gen consoles will be released.

Notellin1d 9h ago

You should have just lead this comment with the fact that you have zero understanding of technology in the consoles and instead have a Toms Hardware online forum level of education.

Agent751d 10h ago

But Microsoft forgot the games

Obscure_Observer1d 10h ago

@VenomUK

"I’m speculating of course, but this could mean a spec bump every year or two, so that even if the PS6 or Steam Deck Home is released a year after ‘Xbox’ Microsoft can release an updated model that has a higher spec."

Very interesting theory. Still not sure how MS would actually make it work.

KwietStorm_BLM1d 6h ago

"I doubt that AMD´s CEO would waste her time making this huge and important partnership announcement over a tech that will be 7 years old by the those next gen consoles will be released."

How old is the tech in consoles? It's not a huge announcement. It's marketing and you know it is.

Obscure_Observer10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

"How old is the tech in consoles? It's not a huge announcement. It's marketing and you know it is."

Dude, what I know for certain is that a tech as old as X3D chips which is actually *older* than both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles, is hardly the reason behind this new partnership between AMD and MS to build new *custom silicon* for next generation of consoles.

And yes it´s a huge announcement since AMD is working closely with MS to co-develop custom SoC which will allow backwards compatibility across all MS´s next gen devices allowing seamless integration between devices and full backwards compatibility across all generations of Xbox consoles.

I also know is that this announcement don´t have anything to do with Playstation and their strategy with AMD for the PS6, so stop comparing the two pretending that you know what´s going on, because you clearly don´t.

If Sony is working on something remotely similar, that´s remain to be seen.

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Fishy Fingers2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Some odd, deliberate wording, no branding, not 'Xbox consoles, Xbox handhelds' specifically, feels and sounds like they're building towards hardware that anyone can be used or licensed to/by themselves and other manufacturers.

Multiplatform software and hardware 'Xbox/AMD APU'.

Obscure_Observer2d ago

I guess you missed Sarah Bond´s next generation Xbox announcement this week, were she clearly states:

"I´m thrilled to share that we´ve established a strategic multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices, including, *our* next generation *Xbox consoles*."

But hey, I don´t think you´re entirely wrong, maybe MS will build their own Xbox consoles while licencing other manufactures to build and sell their own Xbox branded consoles. Who knows

BeHunted2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I think you watched the wrong video. It's below the description, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/kprpRvsOua...

HyperMoused2d ago

Shares vision....we provide chips for money, this deal will sell many chips, we will make lots of money...good vision

Christopher2d ago

The marketing behind this is so heavy that I worry about the actual outcome. Why are they just not showing us the product, why all this talking in market speak?

Lightning772d ago

Probably because the next xbox isn't ready to release yet?

The marketing and rumors seem to be heavy out of no where. The rumor was a 27 release but it maybe it could be 26 new console launch instead.

Who knows.

Eonjay1d 15h ago

There PR is alrways super heavy handed. No one is acutally buying an Xbox as is.
Also it is very early to be talking so much about a next gen console.

Obscure_Observer1d 9h ago

There´s a lot of people interested on Xbox Next and its ability to run games from major stores like Steam.

We know that the PS6 is just around the corner as well, but so far, no news on what it might improve over the PS5 or PS5 Pro.

However, Sony already made public that their priority and actual focus is the PS6. So its not "very early" to talk about next gen when the very console manufactures are talking about it.

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Josh Sawyer: "I feel good about the ability for people to create games."

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