Blu-Ray BD+ Copy Protection Cracked

[Nipun Mohta]

Blu-Ray may have won acclaim as having the best high-definition format, but it has got a lot to do when dealing with hackers. Recently, a group of hackers at the Doom9 forum managed to successfully circumvent the BD+ protection. For the record, this is the copy-protection which Richard Doherty, a media analyst, claimed as one that cannot be broken for 10 years.

The hackers achieved this feat by creating a reverse-engineered BD+ virtual machine software that helps to decrypt and play the protected content in the player.

One more example of a DRM failure.

Since it is broken now, the day is not far away when the Blu-Ray backers will release a new encryption key to close the loophole.

If you're interested in the geeky discussion of the hackers, head over here.

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