Copyleft: the magazine

In a move that should surprise no one at this point, the kids over at the Doom9 forums have sent out and new set of apps to crack the AACS digital rights management system. This most recent crack in HD DVD and Blu-ray’s armor is thanks to an exploit using the XBox 360’s HD DVD external drive, which allowed these intrepid hackers to get the Volume IDs of their high definition disks without using the pesky host keys. In short, that means getting around the AACS encryption just in time for all the old host keys to be canceled thanks to the last major crack. More as this story develops, but for all of you making back-ups of your HD movies, looks like you’ll still have the capability for a while.

For a little background on AACS, check out our info page on [[DRM]].

(from DLTV and Doom9)

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