Blu-ray And HD-DVD Copy Protection Fails
German magazine CT have found a pretty simple, yet effective way to copy both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc media. Although Blu-ray and HD DVD are supposed to be highly secure, using both AACS and HDCP copy protection in order to ensure that you cannot simply copy media from a disc, the German computer magazine CT found a much easier, crude way to get around the copyright protection. It was so simple it must have been overlooked by Sony, Microsoft and other next-generation DVD manufacturers.
The exploit in the copy protection meant that you could copy media using the print screen function on a computer, copying each frame individually. This may seem too crude to actually work but of course you wouldn’t sit there pressing print screen manually, it wouldn’t take a genius to create a program that would capture each frame using print screen. However, this flaw in the system will be fixed. CT magazine contacted Toshiba in order to notify them of the problem, and later versions of Toshiba’s HD-DCD players will protect against this flaw. And Sony – I guess they’ll take the hint!
Via I4U
German magazine CT have found a pretty simple, yet effective way to copy both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc media. Although Blu-ray and HD DVD are supposed to be highly secure, using both AACS and HDCP copy protection in order to ensure that you cannot simply copy media from a disc, the German computer magazine CT found a much easier, crude way to get around the copyright protection. It was so simple it must have been overlooked by Sony, Microsoft and other next-generation DVD manufacturers.
The exploit in the copy protection meant that you could copy media using the print screen function on a computer, copying each frame individually. This may seem too crude to actually work but of course you wouldn’t sit there pressing print screen manually, it wouldn’t take a genius to create a program that would capture each frame using print screen. However, this flaw in the system will be fixed. CT magazine contacted Toshiba in order to notify them of the problem, and later versions of Toshiba’s HD-DCD players will protect against this flaw. And Sony – I guess they’ll take the hint!
Via I4U
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