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- Latest AACS Processing Key released
- Latest AACS Processing Key releasedThe hackers have the upper hand[i]"The battle between the hackers and the AACS LA could go on for years or it could be over in months"[/i]It costs the AACS a lot of money and even more in credibility every time this happens. It merely costs the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Hacking, Digital media, DVD, Consumer electronics, SECURITY, digital-rights management, BD-ROM Mark, BluRay, hacker, device manufacturer, HD-DVD, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Latest AACS Processing Key released
- The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.This latest key can be used to decrypt all newly released (and future releases, for a while at least) HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. This...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- New AACS Processing Key released
- The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.
- Tags: Mice, mouse, hacker, game, Web
- Image galleries 2007-05-31
- AACS broken - before it's patched!
- AACS, the copy-protection scheme used on HD DVD discs has been broken again. But what's different this time is that it's been broken six days before the new, updated version is released.It's SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, which are behind this new crack. The latest beta version of AnyDVD HD, version...
- Tags: DRM, Blu-ray, HD-DVD
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- AACS vs. The bloggers
- The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...
- Tags: AACS Licensing Authority, AACSLA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, British Broadcasting Corp., disc, DRM, In the news, Legal, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Why the AACSLA are desperate to force the "forbidden numbers" genie back into the bottle
- Ive had a number of questions from Hardware 2.0 readers concerning the AACSLA AACS Licensing Authority and why theyre now trying to erase the HD-DVD processing key forbidden numbers" from the Internet. What a slap in the face for the AACS is must have been when the lowly hackers,...
- Tags: Thoughts, Legal, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- A Digg riot and AACS
- AACS, the DRM technology used to protect HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs (though Blu-Ray has additional schemes it can use), has been broken for awhile, at least since February 13th when this Wired blog post appeared. The "processing key," which is posted on the referenced Wired blog in hexadecimal form, is...
- Tags: Television, HD DVD, HD, General, DRM, Digital Media, BluRay
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- The Digg HD-DVD processing key debacle
- Who would have thought that one 16 digit hexadecimal string could cause so much upset. Im talking about the HD-DVD processing string. But its all a fuss over nothing. Digg or no Digg, the information is out there in the public domain and theres nothing anyone can...
- Tags: In the news, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog
- This is just so wrong on so many levels. The AACS licensing authority sends a legal threat to Cory Doctorow (blogger, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing) over a blog relating to a USC undergraduate class that hes been involved in teaching:I just censored Teque5s post about the AACS processing...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Legal, Links
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Another nail in the AACS coffin
- A hacker has put another nail in the coffin of the HD encryption scheme AACS - the device key for WinDVD 8 has been found.[poll=94]A hacker going under the pseudonym of ATARI Vampire has discovered the device key for WinDVD 8 and posted their findings on the Doom9 forum. ...
- Tags: DRM, HD-DVD, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- News to know: Microsoft security; Sun's rapid patch; Vista clean install
- Notable headlines:Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw. What the UAC hole is really about. Sun rushes out patch for Solaris Telnet exploit.Patch Day coverage:Microsoft’s Patch Day: Is there a better way?MS Patch Tuesday: 12 bulletins, 6 critical, 20 vulnerabilities. No Vista fixes in Microsofts dirty dozen. Vista...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- AACS - BUSTED!
- [Updated: Feb 13, 2007 @ 4.15 pm] Ive just found out that SlySoft have a beta version of AnyDVD HD in the pipeline. This application is able to rip HD-DVDs (but not Blu-ray discs). Details here and here. AACS took years to develop and millions of dollars to...
- Tags: In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
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